White Plastic Mousetrap
notes: label: Description
content: This is a while plastic mousetrap, part of a series of mousetrap inventions by William Oviatt. This can be seperated into four different pieces and there is also a metal L-shaped allen key attached by a rubber band.
label: Description
content: Inside the tube is an orange ping pong ball, and on each piece of plastic is a sticker with a bar code and a description/title of each piece as it was originally intended (as a plumbers pipe).
label: Description
content: The largest plastic piece appears to have been altered from two seperate pieces and glued to each other. There is a 'scraping' off of plastic along one side of the plastic pieces.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: William T. Oviatt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0034.04
label: accession number
content: 1997.0034
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0034.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mousetrap
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 3 3/4 in x 2 in; 24.13 cm x 9.525 cm x 5.08 cm