Object Details
- Description
- Body Mass Index (BMI) gained traction in the 1970s as a convenient way to indicate one aspect of a person’s health.
- date made
- 1999
- maker
- Hoechst Marion Roussel
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Diabetes
- Exhibition
- Food: Transforming the American Table
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 2006.0146.03
- catalog number
- 2006.0146.03
- accession number
- 2006.0146
- Object Name
- body mass calculator, advertising device
- advertising device
- promotional device, body mass index calculator
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 9.525 cm x 9.525 cm
- overall: in x 3 3/4 in; .0254 cm x 9.525 cm
- Record ID
- nmah_1305817