Hot Water Bottle
date: label: patent date
content: 1912-11-26
name: label: manufacturer
content: Boston Metal Bottle Company
notes: label: Description
content: Metal hot water bottle with embossed inscription that reads “GUARANTEED / HOT WATER BOTTLE / PAT. NO. 1045510 / BOSTONIA / MF’D BY / BOSTON METAL BOTTLE CO. / BOSTON.” The referenced patent was issued to Alphonso S. Campbell of Medford, Massachusetts, in 1912.
label: Description
content: Ref: Alphonso S. Campbell, “Hot-Water Bottle,” U.S. Patent 1,045,510A (November 26, 1912).
label: Description
content: “Alphonso S. Campbell of Winchester Dead,” Boston Globe (Feb. 25, 1941), p. 15.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mario Cassinelli, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0782.319
label: accession number
content: 1984.0782
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0782.319
label: patent number
content: US1045510A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hot water bottle
label: Object Type
content: Furnishings
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 25.2 cm x 4.5 cm; 9 15/16 in x 1 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored: 2 5/8 in x 8 1/2 in x 14 3/4 in; 6.6675 cm x 21.59 cm x 37.465 cm