Anesthesia Inhaler
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
name: label: maker
content: Justi, Henry D.
notes: label: Description
content: Henry Daniel Justi was born in Germany in 1834 and apprenticed with a surgical instrument maker before moving to the United States in 1850. He obtained his first U.S. patent and opening his own shop in Philadelphia in 1860. The firm became H. D. Justi & Son in 1892. This is an example of the Justi Simplex No. 1 inhaler for nitrous oxide.
label: Description
content: Ref: George W. Nűtz, “Inhaler,” U.S. Patent 433,418 (July 29, 1890), assigned to Henry D. Justi.
label: Description
content: H. D. Justi & Son ad for “The Simplex Inhaler” in The Dental Review 11 (1897).
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 the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09485
label: catalog number
content: M-09485
label: accession number
content: 232230
objectType: label: Object Name
content: anesthesia inhaler
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 6 19/32 in x 3 29/32 in; 11.43 cm x 16.764 cm x 9.906 cm