Bottle
date: label: date made
content: after 1916
name: label: maker
content: Hygeia Nursing Bottle Company
notes: label: Description
content: William More Decker (1855-1928) was a family physician who designed a nursing bottle for babies, trademarked the word HYGEIA, established the Hygeia Glass Corp., and built a bottle factory in Buffalo, N.Y. This round clear glass bottle has molded graduations reading from one to ten ounces, and "Pat. June 19th 1894" and "Pat. Dec. 5th 1916" inscriptions.
label: Description
content: Ref: W. M. Decker, “Nursing-Bottle,” U.S. Patent 521773 (June 19, 1894).
label: Description
content: William More Decker, “NURSING-BOTTLE,” U.S. Patent 1,207,377 (Dec. 5, 1916).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN82813X08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Infant Feeder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 cm x 6 cm; 6 11/16 in x 2 3/8 in