Bottle
date: label: Date made
content: 1937
name: label: maker
content: Plax Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The Plax Corporation was organized in 1937, with the aim of producing polyethylene items. This small plastic bottle was produced soon thereafter, by an injection blow-molding process devised by William Henry Kopitke (1885-1965), an inventor who worked for Plax.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. Harry DuBois
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0538.03
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0538.03
label: accession number
content: 1983.0538
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bottle
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 89 mm x 76 mm; 3 1/2 in x 3 in
label: Measurements
content: base: 51 mm; x 2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/8 in x 2 7/8 in x 3 1/8 in; 9.8425 cm x 7.3025 cm x 7.9375 cm