Nalgene Bottle
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Object Details
- Nalge Sybron Corporation
- Description
- This 64 oz capacity, blow-molded plastic bottle was used by Connaught Labs in Toronto and is of the sort used to store Salk and Sabine polio vaccine concentates. The inscription on the blue plastic screw cap reads “NALGENE / ½ GALLON.” Plastic bottles of this sort were introduced to market in 1965. They were less likely to break than glass bottles, and so lowered cost of vaccines and medicines.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
- ca 1960s
- ID Number
- 1989.0452.04
- catalog number
- 1989.0452.04
- accession number
- 1989.0452
- Object Name
- bottle, storage, vaccines
- Physical Description
- plastic, teflon fep (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 24.7 cm x 10.8 cm; 9 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- The Antibody Initiative
- Health & Medicine
- Antibody Initiative: Polio
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_332430
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-6a55-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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