Portable Incubator
name: label: maker
content: Millipore
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on the case reads “MILLIPORE CORPORATION / BEDFORD MASSACHUSETTS 01730 / PORTABLE INCUBATOR / CAT. NO.—XX63 000 00.”
label: Description
content: Building on a technology that had been known for some time, Nazi scientists developed membrane filters to determine the bacterial content of German civilian and military water supplies. At the end of World War II, the U.S. Army Chemical Corps, working with scientists at the California Institute of Technology, developed improved methods for making and using filters of this sort. At the end of that project, the Lovell Corp. was given a contract to carry out in productive development. Jack Bush, son of Vannevar Bush and head of that project, organized the Millipore Filter Corp. in 1953. That firm became the Millipore Filter Corp. in the summer of 1955.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Space Age Progress is Filtered Through Millipore,” Boston Globe Sept. 20, 1959), p. A10.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-14620
label: model number
content: XX6300000
label: catalog number
content: M-14620
label: accession number
content: 299321
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Incubator, Portable
label: Object Name
content: incubator, portable, bacteriological