Cigar Lighter Case
notes: label: Description
content: Henri Dreyfus (1882-1944) and his brother Camille Dreyfus (1878-1956) were Jewish chemists in Basel who, in 1908, began trying to produce a fireproof celluloid out of cellulose acetate. When their research panned out, they established the Cellonit firm in 1913. The Dreyfus brothers moved to Britain in 1916, and established the British Cellulose & Chemical Manufacturing Co, soon thereafter; this became British Celanese Ltd. In 1918. Led by Camille Dreyfus, the American Cellulose & Chemical Manufacturing Co. was established in New York City. This firm became the Celanese Corporation of America in 1927.
label: Description
content: In 1929, the Celanese Corporation of America gave the Smithsonian several items illustrating the manufacture of cellulose acetate plastics. This cigar lighter case is from that donation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Celanese Corporation of America
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.A.3697
label: catalog number
content: A.3697
label: accession number
content: 104249
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cigar Lighter Case
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 11/16 in x 1 3/4 in x 11/16 in; 4.28625 cm x 4.445 cm x 1.74625 cm