Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Wood rack holds 6 small glass flasks. Flasks have handwritten labels on pieces of adhesive tape and are sealed with tape. Each contains a small amount of yellowish liquid (residue of original cultures of poliovirus in human embryonic and muscle tissue).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Enders, John F.
- date made
- 1940s
- Credit Line
- Gift of The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
- Physical Description
- glass (container material)
- wood (container material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8.5 cm x 37 cm x 10 cm; 3 3/8 in x 14 9/16 in x 3 15/16 in
- overall, rack: 2 in x 14 3/4 in x 3 7/8 in; 5.08 cm x 37.465 cm x 9.8425 cm
- Object Name
- biological
- virus cultures, polio
