Syringe
name: label: maker
content: Becton, Dickinson and Company
notes: label: Description
content: 10 c.c. glass syringe with a “B-D YALE / LUER-LOK CONTROL” inscription on the tube. The Becton Dickinson Control Syringe, introduced in 1923, had three rings for two fingers and a thumb. With the Luer-Lok, available by 1924, “a half turn locks the needle” securely into place.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Becton, Dickinson and Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06720.10
label: catalog number
content: M-06720.10
label: accession number
content: 201362
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe
label: Other Terms
content: Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (plunger, single ring material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (barrel material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (plunger, single ring material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (handle, double ring material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (tip, luer lock material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (barrel material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, (barrel material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, (plunger material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, (tip, luer lock material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 6 3/8 in x 3 1/8 in; 2.54 cm x 16.1925 cm x 7.9375 cm