Gebauer's Patent Ethyl-Chloride Tube
Gebauer's Patent Ethyl-Chloride Tube
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- Description
- The “GEBAUER’S PATENT ETHYL-CHLORIDE TUBE / MANUFACTURED BY / THE CLEVELAND LIQUID GAS CO. / Cleveland, Ohio” inscription on this glass tube containing an anesthetic refers to Theophil H. Gebauer, a founding partner of the Gebauer Chemical Co., and his patent of 1906.
- Ref: Theophil H. Gebauer, “Inhaling Apparatus,” U.S. Patent 821,354 (May 22, 1906).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- anesthesia
- ethyl chloride
- pharmaceutical
- Other Terms
- Pharmaceuticals; Drugs
- patent date
- 1901-02-26
- maker
- Gebauer Chemical Company
- place made
- United States: Ohio, Cleveland
- Measurements
- overall as stored: 2 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in x 7 1/4 in; 5.715 cm x 4.445 cm x 18.415 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-07151
- catalog number
- M-07151
- accession number
- 218892
- Credit Line
- W. Harry Archer, D.D.S.
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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