Object Record
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Title |
Bee Brand Insect Spray |
Object Name |
Can |
Object ID |
2010.008.007 |
Description |
Tin or aluminum canister painted red, yellow, and black. |
Date |
1960s |
Dimensions |
H-7.5 W-4 D-2 inches |
Material |
Metal |
Made |
McCormick and Co. |
Search Terms |
Chemicals Containers DDT (Insecticide) Insecticides Pesticides Bee Brand |
Provenance |
From Molecules that Matter exhibit First synthesized in 1874, DDT's insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939, and it was used with great success in the second half of World War II to control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops. The Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 "for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods."[2] After the war, DDT was used as an agricultural insecticide. DDT was banned in the USA in 1972. Wikipedia |