NovoPen Insulin Delivery Device
date: label: date made
content: ca 1986
label: patent date
content: 1986-06-03
name: label: maker
content: Squibb-Novo, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: The patent, issued in 1986, described “a dispenser suitable for use in dispensing a liquid medicine, for instance insulin solution. The dispenser is, in principle, constructed as a hypodermic syringe but differs in that it enables dispensing of a predetermined portion.” Both inventors lived in Denmark.
label: Description
content: Ref: Jorn Rex and Otto A. Vogeley, “Dispenser,” U.S. Patent 4,592,745 (June 3, 1986), assigned to Novo Industri A/S.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Princeton
label: place made
content: Denmark: Hovedstaden, Bagsvaerd
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Diabetes
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0129.90
label: patent number
content: US4592745A
label: accession number
content: 2004.0129
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0129.90
objectType: label: Object Name
content: insulin dispenser
label: Object Name
content: syringe
label: Object Name
content: insulin delivery device
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.1 cm x 17 cm x 4.7 cm; 1 7/32 in x 6 11/16 in x 1 27/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, box: 1 1/4 in x 6 7/8 in x 1 7/8 in; 3.175 cm x 17.4625 cm x 4.7625 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, booklet: 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in; .635 cm x 16.51 cm x 12.065 cm