Dry Cell Battery
date: label: Date made
content: c.1918
name: label: maker
content: The Chloride of Silver Dry Cell Battery Co.
notes: label: Description
content: A label in the lid of the wooden box reads in part “THE CHLORIDE OF SILVER DRY CELL BATTERY CO. / BALTIMORE, MD.” with list of patents issued to this company in the United States and in Great Britain. The John A. Barrett Battery Co. was renamed the Chloride of Silver Dry Cell Battery Co. in 1890.
label: Description
content: Ref: John A. Barrett, “Galvanic Battery,” U.S. Patent 405,196 (June 11, 1889), assigned to the John A. Barrett Battery Company. of Baltimore.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From Mr. Irvin Weinberg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.317862.01
label: accession number
content: 317862
label: serial number
content: D2928
label: catalog number
content: 317862.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Faradic Battery
label: Object Name
content: electrotherapeutic apparatus
label: Object Name
content: faradic battery
label: Other Terms
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Faradic Battery; Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Induction Battery; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 18.2 cm x 30 cm x 18.9 cm; 7 3/16 in x 11 13/16 in x 7 7/16 in