Tupperware "Millionaire" Jigger
Tupperware "Millionaire" Jigger
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- Description
- While working for DuPont in Leominster, Mass., in 1937, Earl Silas Tupper (1907-1983) found that polyethylene slag could be transformed into a firm and flexible plastic. Building on this discovery, he formed the Earl S. Tupper Company in 1938; built a factory in Farnumsville, Mass., in 1942; launched Tupperware in 1945; trademarked the term “Millionaire” in 1946; and invented the Tupper Seal in 1947. The inscription on this off-white plastic jigger reads “Tupper / Millionaire Line / Made in U.S.A.” and “Tupper Seal.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Jigger
- Tupperware Jigger
- Tupperware "Millionaire" Jigger
- Associated Place
- United States: New Jersey
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5.6 cm x 5.1 cm; 2 3/16 in x 2 in
- overall: 2 7/16 in x 2 1/8 in; 6.19125 cm x 5.3975 cm
- ID Number
- 1992.0597.15
- catalog number
- 1992.0597.15
- accession number
- 1992.0597
- Credit Line
- Glenn O. Tupper
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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