Syringe
name: label: maker
content: Becton, Dickinson and Company
notes: label: Description
content: In 1920, Joseph J. Kleiner (1897-1972) established the Goodman-Kleiner company to develop diagnostic instruments for medical purposes. In 1935, Kleiner and others established Multifit, Inc., to import borosilicate glass syringes from Japan. In 1943, with war having put an end to that business. Kleiner joined Becton, Dickinson, bringing along the rights to the Multifit syringe with interchangeable parts. That product came to market in the early 1950s, and Becton, Dickinson applied for a trademark in 1954. The inscriptions on this example read “B-D / LUER LOK” and “MULTIFIT” and “MADE IN U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “New Hypo Syringe Has Interchangeable Parts,” Science News-Letter 64 (July 11, 1953): 18.
label: Description
content: Becton-Dickinson Full-page ad for Multifit Syringes in American Journal of Nursing 54 (August 1954): 1001.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0895.006
label: accession number
content: 1981.0895
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0895.006
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Syringe
label: Other Terms
content: Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (plunger material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (?? material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (tip, luer lock material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 5/8 in; 8.255 cm x 1.5875 cm