Cup for Effervescing Drinks
date: label: Date made
content: c 1868
notes: label: Description
content: White ceramic cup with inscription that reads in part “DR. A. ROTTANZI / . . . / PATENT JULY 7, 1868.” Tullio Antonio Rottanzi (1867-1911), a physician and pharmacist in San Francisco, patented this type of drinking vessel in 1868. Later, as a member of the local Board of Supervisors, he introduced an ordinance making it a misdemeanor for a woman to wear a high hat in a theater.
label: Description
content: Ref: Antonio Rottanzi, “Cup for Effervescing Drinks,” U.S. Patent 79,689 (July 7, 1868).
label: Description
content: "FORMER SUPERVISOR DIES AT THE GERMAN HOSPITAL: Dr. F. A. Rottanzi, at One Time Acting Mayor, Succombs to Typhoid Pneumonia," San Francisco Chronicle (January 21, 1911). p. 16.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0471.06
label: accession number
content: 1985.0471
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0471.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cup, Effervescent Drinks
label: Object Name
content: effervescent drink cup
label: Object Name
content: cup
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.1 cm x 22.5 cm x 8.8 cm; 4 3/4 in x 8 7/8 in x 3 7/16 in