Baby Bottle
date: label: date made
content: 1952
name: label: maker
content: Seamless Rubber Company
notes: label: Description
content: Charles Goodyear discovered a way to vulcanize rubber in 1844. In 1877, inspired in part by a newborn child and leaky bottles, Charles Longdon developed a way to make seamless rubber products. His success led to the establishment of the Seamless Rubber Company. That firm donated this 8 oz. baby bottle with nipple and cap to the Smithsonian in 1953. An inscription reads “EVEREADY SR 50 NURSER.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Paul S. Madsen and George W. Goodson, “Nursing Outfit,” U.S. Patent 2,616,581 (Nov. 4, 1952), assigned to The Seamless Rubber Company in New Haven, Connecticut.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Seamless Rubber Company, through Edwin P. Dawson, Advertising Manager; Accession 199173 (1953)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06681
label: catalog number
content: M-06681
label: accession number
content: 199173
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Infant Feeder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (cap material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (nipple material)
label: Measurements
content: green nipple: 2 1/8 in x 1 13/16 in; 5.3975 cm x 4.60375 cm
label: Measurements
content: glass bottle: 7 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in x 2 in; 19.685 cm x 5.715 cm x 5.08 cm