Nutype Noninflammable Typecleanser
date: label: Date made
content: 1930-1940
label: Date made
content: 1930s
name: label: maker
content: Walter G. Gies Company
notes: label: Description
content: Blue glass bottle with flat stopper and dauber, made to hold 2 ounces of a liquid. A paper label reads "NUTYPE NONINFLAMMABLE TYPE CLEANSER / WALTER G. GIES COMPANY / CROWNSVILLE MARYLAND / COPYRIGHT 1936."
label: Description
content: Walter Gerard Gies (1896-1975) was a Baltimorean who began selling a liquid cleaner for type that he termed “Nutype” in 1921, and obtained a copyright on the term in 1935. In 1936, he obtained a patent (2,057,022) for a brush-like device for cleaning typewriter type.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from Freer Gallery of Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.337247
label: catalog number
content: 337247
label: accession number
content: 1979.0867
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Industrial Chemical Bottle
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 95 mm x 43 mm; 3 3/4 in x 1 11/16 in