Stirring Flask
name: label: maker
content: Bellco Glass, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: The “Bellco / Pat. No. 2958517 U.S.A.” inscription on this stirring flask identifies a form patented in 1960. The Bell Co., a manufacturer of glass products, was established in Vineland, N.J., in 1936. It was renamed Bellco Glass Inc. in 1941 and began specializing in laboratory glassware and equipment.
label: Description
content: Donald K. Harker and Allen R. De Long, “Vessel for Tissue Culture and the Like for Comprising a Magnetic Stirrer,” U.S. Patent 2,958,517 (Nov. 1, 1960), assigned to Bellco Glass Inc.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Vineland
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the DeWitt Stetten, Jr. Museum of Medical Research, National Institutes of Health
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0071.17
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0071.17
label: accession number
content: 1991.0071
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stirring flask
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 14 cm x 6.4 cm x 5.1 cm; 5 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in x 2 in