Atomizer
date: label: patent date
content: 1898-10-25
notes: label: Description
content: A paper label on the cardboard box reads in part: “The Adjustable Century Atomizer No. 10” and “The S. H. Wetmore Company, New York, U.S.A.” and “PATENTED / MARCH 29, 19 . . . / OCTOBER 18, 1904.” According to advertisements, this atomizer was designed to spray both oil and water. George Fuller Hawley (1844-1917), the inventor, was a Yale graduate who practiced medicine in Chicago.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dr. George F. Hawley Dies; Pioneer Throat Specialist,” Chicago Tribune (April 17, 1917), p. 11.
label: Description
content: George F. Hawley, “Atomizer,” U.S. Patent 772,802 (Oct. 18, 1904), assigned to S. H. Wetmore Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Gary P. and Sandra Baden
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0798.534
label: accession number
content: 1979.0798
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0798.534
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Atomizer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall as stored: 3 1/4 in x 5 3/4 in x 5 3/4 in; 8.255 cm x 14.605 cm x 14.605 cm