Sterilizer
notes: label: Description
content: The “Leviton 6A-125V.3A-250 V und. Lab. Insp.” inscription on this electric sterilizer refers to the Leviton Manufacturing Co. Isidor Leviton (1886-1965) was a Jewish immigrant from Kiev who opened a tin smithing shop in Manhattan 1906, producing mantle tips for gas lighting. In time, the business grew and relocated to Rhode Island.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Isidor Leviton, a Manufacturer of Electrical Devices, Dies at 79,” New York Times (June 10, 1965), p. 35.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Eugene E. Myer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1095.04
label: accession number
content: 1979.1095
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1095.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sterilizer, Electrical
label: Other Terms
content: Sterilizer, Electrical; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 8 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 15.24 cm x 22.225 cm x 8.255 cm