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Ceramic model of contraceptive pill, as a paperweight, c.1970
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Ceramic model of contraceptive pill, as a paperweight, c.1970
This paperweight was made to represent a contraceptive pill. The contraceptive pill became available in 1960. It uses female hormones to control fertility and became commercially viable when it was discovered that the Mexican yam was a cheap natural source of these hormones. The paperweight is ceramic.
Details
- Category:
- Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception
- Object Number:
- 1994-1329
- Materials:
- ceramic (unspecified)
- Measurements:
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overall: 45 mm 80 mm, .283 kg
- credit:
- Almeida, J.
