In 1959, Becton, Dickinson, a firm that produced a wide range of medical devices, merged with Falcon Products, a firm in Culver City that produced plastic products for laboratory use. Four years later, Becton, Dickinson opened a new factory, in Connecticut, for the manufacture of disposable plastic hypodermic syringes. This example came into the Smithsonian collections in 1974. An inscription reads "B-D PATS. APP'D FOR.
Ref: “380 To Be Employed By North Canaan Firm,” Hartford Courant (Dec. 14, 1963), p. 6c.
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