MICRONAIRE JR
notes: label: Description
content: Raytheon air purifier with “Micronaire Jr. / Model KA-3 / ... / Serial 4623” inscriptions. This item was said to be “the electro discovery that assures allergy sufferers of 99.2% POSITIVE PROTECTION against Hay Fever, Sinus, Asthma and other airborne ALLERGIES, in any room, anywhere.” The U.S. Food & Drug Administration, which argued that the advertising was “false and misleading”, transferred this item to the Smithsonian in 1967.
label: Description
content: Ref: Micronaire ad in Boston Globe (Sept. 6, 1959), p. 22.
label: Description
content: Micronaire ad in New York Times (Sept. 13, 1959), p. 70.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.274347.005
label: accession number
content: 274347
label: catalog number
content: M-12013
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Micronaire
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leatherette (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)