Hypak Syringe
date: label: date made
content: ca. 2007
name: label: maker
content: Becton, Dickinson and Company
notes: label: Description
content: In 1954, two years after having created a successful polio vaccine, Jonas Salk announced a plan to vaccinate more than 650,000 children. In connection with this effort, Becton, Dickinson & Co. introduced its Hypak, the first sterile disposable glass syringe with needle. This example is of that sort.
label: Description
content: Ref: Becton Dickinson ad in The American Journal of Nursing 58 (April 1958), p. 515.
label: Description
content: Becton Dickinson ad in Washington Post (April 3, 2005).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Becton, Dickinson and Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0198.138
label: accession number
content: 2007.0198
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0198.138
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe, hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: syringe: 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in x 5/8 in; 1.905 cm x 8.89 cm x 1.5875 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 625 in x 3 1/2 in x 3/4 in; 1587.5 cm x 8.89 cm x 1.905 cm