M0013730: Glass feeding bottle with thermometer, post 1892

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Glass feeding bottle with thermometer, post 1892

Photograph of a glass infant feeding bottle with the teat attached to a long rubber tube fastened to a glass tube going down to the bottom of the bottle, with thermometer. It was made an patented by Burroughs Wellcome & Co. The item was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1939 (accession number R949/1939)

October 1954

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm photographic print; 10 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item (acc. number R649/1939 image 232)

Copyright held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.