Plastic Bottle
date: label: Date made
content: 1947
name: label: maker
content: Plax Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Red plastic bottle with a “HYATT” inscription, made by the Plax Corp. According to the donor, it is made of polyethylene and dates from 1947. Polyethylene was synthesized, accidentally, by a German chemist in 1898; and rediscovered by British chemists in the 1930s. Commercial production in the United States was begun by the Bakelite Corporation, and by DuPont, both under license to the Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), in 1944.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. Harry DuBois
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0538.08
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0538.08
label: accession number
content: 1983.0538
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bottle
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 165 mm x 70 mm; 6 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: mouth: 38 mm; x 1 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in; 16.51 cm x 21.59 cm