Cylinder for Nitrous Oxide
name: label: maker
content: Johnston Bros.
notes: label: Description
content: Johnston Bros., a dental supply house in New York City, was the first U.S. firm to manufacture nitrous oxide on a commercial basis. This Johnston Bros. cylinder for anesthetic gas, Serial No. 2725, carries a patent date of Mar. 25, 1879. Two years later, in 1881, the Johnston Bros. firm merged with that of Samuel S. White, becoming part of the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co.
label: Description
content: Ref: Wilbur F. Johnston and William A. Johnston, “Improvement in Bottles for Holding Compressed Gases, and Case,” U.S. Patent 213,576 (March 25, 1879).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: W. Harry Archer, D.D.S.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07098
label: catalog number
content: M-07098
label: accession number
content: 218892
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cylinder, Nitrous Oxide
label: Other Terms
content: Cylinder, Nitrous Oxide; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 3 in; 30.48 cm x 7.62 cm