Syringe with Hypodermic Needle
name: label: maker
content: Becton Dickinson
notes: label: Description
content: In 1959, Becton, Dickinson, a firm that produced a wide range of medical devices, merged with Falcon Products, a firm in Culver City that produced plastic products for laboratory use. Four years later, Becton, Dickinson opened a new factory, in Connecticut, for the manufacture of disposable plastic hypodermic syringes. This example came into the Smithsonian collections in 1974.
label: Description
content: Ref: “380 To Be Employed By North Canaan Firm,” Hartford Courant (Dec. 14, 1963), p. 6c.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: related event
content: New York World's Fair (1939)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Celanese Plastics Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.334335.147
label: accession number
content: 310799
label: catalog number
content: 334335.147
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Syringe
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 90 mm x 38 mm x 12.5 mm; 3 9/16 in x 1 1/2 in x 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 1 5/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 4.1275 cm x 8.5725 cm