Codman & Shurleff Automatic Vaccinator - Whittemore's Patent
Codman & Shurleff Automatic Vaccinator - Whittemore's Patent
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- Description
- Steel vaccinator with inscriptions that read “MADE BY / CODMAN & SHURTLEFF / BOSTON” and “WHITTEMORE’S / PATENT / FEB. 20, 1866.” The inventor, Amos Whittemore, was a machinist in Cambridge, Mass.
- Ref: Amos Whittemore, “Improvement in Vaccinators,” U.S. Patent 52,921 (Feb. 20, 1866).
- Codman & Shurtleff, Illustrated Catalogue of Surgical Instruments (Boston, 1875), p. 84.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- biological
- vaccinator
- patent date
- 1866-02-21
- maker
- Codman & Shurtleff
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Boston
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 5/8 in;.9525 cm x 6.0325 cm x 4.1275 cm
- ID Number
- 2012.0165.348
- catalog number
- 2012.0165.348
- accession number
- 2012.0165
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Antibody Initiative: Smallpox
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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