Thermometer
name: label: maker
content: Becton, Dickinson and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Mercury-in-glass thermometer with white back, and inscriptions that read “I-UBG IIII” and “B.D. U.S.A.” and “ORAL.” Inscriptions on the top of the blue-and-white cardboard box read in part “ONE ASEPTO THERMOMETER / ORAL.” Those on the bottom read in part “B-D WIL-GARD & ASEPTO T.M. / REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. NO. 3,182,790. IN CANADA 741,173 / MADE IN U.S.A.” Becton, Dickinson introduced the term “ASEPTO” to commerce in 1900 and filed for a trademark in 1932.
label: Description
content: Ref: Frank Bieganousky, et. al., “Thermometer Case,” U.S. Patent 3,182,790 (May 11, 1965), assigned to Becton, Dickinson & Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Louisiana, Saint Martinville
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Fournet Drugstore Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0475.830
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0475.830
label: accession number
content: 1985.0475
label: accession number
content: 1985.0475
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer, clinical
label: Object Name
content: thermometer, clinical
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.9 cm x 13.5 cm x 3.5 cm; 3/4 in x 5 5/16 in x 1 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 5 3/8 in x 3/4 in; 3.4925 cm x 13.6525 cm x 1.905 cm