{"id":1551,"date":"2011-03-03T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T08:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2012-12-03T20:39:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T20:39:24","slug":"the-thermos-company-in-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/03\/03\/the-thermos-company-in-connecticut\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thermos Company in Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1552\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/thermos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1552\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/thermos.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/02\/thermos.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/02\/thermos-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/02\/thermos-493x300.jpg 493w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thermos Company workers, ca. 1940s<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The vacuum flask, better known by the trade name Thermos, is fairly ubiquitous in the United States.\u00a0 Virtually every household has a few, to keep food at the desired temperature, be it hot or cold.\u00a0 The vacuum flask was invented in 1892 by Scottish inventor Sir James DeWar and its popularily quickly spread.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>William Walker, founder of the American Thermos Bottle Company, established a Thermos plant in Brooklyn, New York, in 1907, but\u00a0moved in 1913\u00a0to Norwich, Connecticut, where it became the city&#8217;s largest employer.\u00a0 After World War II the company built another plant in nearby Taftville, Connecticut, and became known as Thermos Company.<\/p>\n<p>In 1969 Thermos was bought by Household International and in the 1980s production moved to Illinois.\u00a0 The collection held in Archives &amp; Special Collections are not the company records but a collection of publications, photographs, company newletters, and annual reports, gathered by the company&#8217;s workers to celebrate their pride in the company that they, and many of their family members, worked for for much of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the company and the collection in its finding aid, at <a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/findaids\/Thermos\/MSS19890098.html\">http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/findaids\/Thermos\/MSS19890098.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Smith, Curator for Business, Railroad and Labor Collections<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vacuum flask, better known by the trade name Thermos, is fairly ubiquitous in the United States.\u00a0 Virtually every household has a few, to keep food at the desired temperature, be it hot or cold.\u00a0 The vacuum flask was invented &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/03\/03\/the-thermos-company-in-connecticut\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3241,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/3241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}