Garden Hose
date: label: Date made
content: 1939
notes: label: Description
content: In 1935, while working for B. F. Goodrich and searching for a synthetic rubber, a chemical engineer named Waldo Lonsbery Semon developed a rubber-like plastic that was technically termed vinyl chloride, and popularly known as Koroseal. This garden hose is made from the first experimental batch of that material.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Research Spurs New Rubber Uses,” New York Times (Oct. 24, 1935), p. 7.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the B. F. Goodrich Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0033.02
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0033.02
label: accession number
content: 1982.0033
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Garden Hose
label: Object Name
content: Koroseal Garden Hose
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 144 in x 1 in; 365.76 cm x 2.54 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall coiled: 4 in x 14 3/4 in; 10.16 cm x 37.465 cm