Carrel Flask
name: label: designed by
content: Carrel, Alexis
notes: label: Description
content: The Carrel flask—developed by Alexis Carrel (1873–1944), a surgeon working at the Rockefeller Institute in New York—featured an angled neck to prevent airborne particles from falling into the flask when it was open.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0019.21
label: accession number
content: 1994.0019
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0019.21
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Flask
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 mm x 75 mm x 51 mm; 11/16 in x 2 15/16 in x 2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 2 in x 3/4 in; 7.62 cm x 5.08 cm x 1.905 cm