Glycolator
notes: label: Description
content: The Glycolator, a device for controlling airborne bacteria and viruses, was developed by John G. Webster, engineers, in Washington, D.C. This example, a Glycolator Model 203, was seized by the FDA, which found its advertising claims false and misleading.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Amazing New Air Conditioning Method Fights Colds, Viruses, Disease and Death,” full-page ad in [Washington, D.C.] <i>The Sunday Star</i> (June 8, 1952), p. A-11.
label: Description
content: “John G. Webster, President of District Plumbing Firm,” <i>Washington Post</i> (April 6, 1967): C8.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Valencia
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.274347.029
label: accession number
content: 274347
label: catalog number
content: M-12037
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Device
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: sheet metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)