The Visible Man
name: label: maker
content: Renwal Products Company
notes: label: Description
content: People have long sought better ways to illustrate and understand the structure and functions of the human body. Paper dolls and wax, papier-mache, and plaster anatomical models have all been used as tools to teach human anatomy. In the wake of the launch of the Sputnik satellite, the Renwall Toy Corporatiion of Mineola on Long Island, New York, prepared a line of models for educational purposes. Participants in the project included company executives Irving Lublow amd Irving Rosenbloom and New Jersey designer Marcel Jovine. They proposed and designed this plastic anatomical model with removable parts.
label: Description
content: Introduced in the fall of 1959, it initially sold for $4.98. The model has a clear plastic body or shell and comes with a "complete" skeleton, "all vital organs," and a round plastic display stand. The kit also includes instructions on how to assemble and disassemble the model and a pamphlet, "An Introduction To Anatomy: An Illustrated Guide to the Visible Man." This kit was never assembled.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, Mineola
topic: label: Subject
content: Education
label: Subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
label: Subject
content: Anatomy
label: Subject
content: Education
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Sputnik
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0185.02
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0185.02
label: accession number
content: 1998.0185
objectType: label: Object Name
content: model, anatomical, male
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (box material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (part material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 41 cm x 13.3 cm x 7 cm; 16 1/8 in x 5 1/4 in x 2 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 13 in x 16 in; 6.985 cm x 33.02 cm x 40.64 cm