Hot Pack Apparatus
name: label: maker
content: J. H. Emerson Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This device was used to heats and wring out hot packs used for the care of polio patients. One inscription reads “EMERSON / Hot Pack.” Another reads “EMERSON Medical Equipment And Research / Model D / No. 210” and “J. H. EMERSON CO. CAMBRIDGE, MASS.”
label: Description
content: John Haven Emerson (1906-1997) was an inventor and manufacturer of biomedical devices.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. H. Emerson Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0145.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0145.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0145
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hot Pack Apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, stainless steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 86 cm x 52 cm x 48 cm; 33 27/32 in x 20 15/32 in x 18 29/32 in
label: Measurements
content: crate: 44 in x 25 in x 27 in; 111.76 cm x 63.5 cm x 68.58 cm