Selenium Sulphide Paper for Mercury Vapor Detector
date: label: patent date (Mercury Vapor Detector)
content: 1937-03-09
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description
content: Glass jar containing selenium sulphide paper for detecting mercury vapor.
label: Description
content: Ref: Birger Wilhelm Nordlander, “Selenium sulfide—a new detector for mercury vapor,” Industrial and Engineering Chemistry 19 (1927): 518-527.
label: Description
content: “New Way To Detect Poison Mercury Vapor in the Air,” Scientific American (Sept. 1927), pp. 254-255, 266.
label: Description
content: Birger W. Nordlander, “Mercury-Vapor Detector,” U.S. Patent 1,711,742 (May 7, 1929), assigned to General Electric Company.
label: Description
content: Birger W. Nordlander, “Stable Selenium Sulphide and Method for Its Preparation,” U.S. Patent 1,860,154 (May 24, 1932), assigned to General Electric Company.
label: Description
content: Thomas H. Swisher, “Mercury Vapor Detector,” U.S. Patent 2,073,531 (March 9, 1937), assigned to General Electric Company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Schenectady
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0837.13.02
label: patent number
content: US1711742A
label: accession number
content: 1986.0837
label: patent number
content: US1860154A
label: patent number
content: US2073531A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Selenium Sulphide Paper for Mercury Vapor Detector
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 cm x 6 cm; 4 5/16 in x 2 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/8 in x 2 3/16 in x 2 3/16 in; 10.4775 cm x 5.55625 cm x 5.55625 cm