Nalgene Bottle
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960s
name: label: maker
content: Nalge Sybron Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This 64 oz capacity, blow-molded plastic bottle was used by Connaught Labs in Toronto and is of the sort used to store Salk and Sabine polio vaccine concentates. The inscription on the blue plastic screw cap reads “NALGENE / ½ GALLON.” Plastic bottles of this sort were introduced to market in 1965. They were less likely to break than glass bottles, and so lowered cost of vaccines and medicines.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Antibody Initiative: Polio
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0452.04
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0452.04
label: accession number
content: 1989.0452
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bottle, storage, vaccines
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic, teflon fep (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24.7 cm x 10.8 cm; 9 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in