Immersion Heater
name: label: maker
content: Fenwal
notes: label: Description
content: Immersion heater with a “FENWAL INC. / ASHLAND, MASS.” inscription.
label: Description
content: Thomas Legar Fen (1890-1985) was a Boston businessman. Carl Waldemar Walter (1905-1992) was an innovative surgeon affiliated with the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the Harvard Medical School. Working together, the two men established Fenwal in 1935. The firm, which began in Newton, Mass., and relocated to Ashland, Mass., in 1938, manufactured smoke and fire detection devices, thermostatic controls, devices to control environmental sepsis, and much more. By 1962 it had become a division of Baxter Laboratories. Inc.
label: Description
content: Ref: John R. Brooks, “Carl W. Walter, MD: Surgeon, Inventor, and Industrialist,” The American Journal of Surgery 148 (1984): 555-558.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of George Washington University, School of Pharmacy; Accession 259201 (1964)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11103
label: catalog number
content: M-11103
label: accession number
content: 259201
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Knob, Control
label: Object Name
content: electric immersion heater
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (plug material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic? (plug material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (plug material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 4 1/2 in x 2 in; 23.495 cm x 11.43 cm x 5.08 cm