Editing Utah teapot (section)

===Original teapot model===
The original, physical Melitta teapot was purchased from [[Zions Co-operative Mercantile Institution|ZCMI]] (a department store in [[Salt Lake City]]) in 1974. It was donated to the [[The Computer Museum, Boston|Boston Computer Museum]] in 1984, where it was on display until 1990. It now resides in the ephemera collection at the [[Computer History Museum]] in [[Mountain View, California]] where it is catalogued as "Teapot used for Computer Graphics rendering" and bears the catalogue number X00398.1984.<ref>{{cite book |title=Original Utah Teapot at the Computer History Museum |url=http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/X398.84 |website=Computer History Museum |date=2001-09-28}}</ref> The original teapot the Utah teapot was based on was available from [[Porzellanfabrik Friesland]], once part of the German Melitta group.<ref name="Siems_2015"/><ref name=FrieslandPorzel>{{cite tweet |user=FrieslandPorzel |author=Friesland Porzellan |author-link=Friesland Porzellan |number=845221850900762625 |date=2017-03-24 |title=The original Utah Teapot was always produced by Friesland. We were part of the Melitta Group once, thats right. Got yours already?}}</ref> Originally it was given the rather plain name {{lang|de|Haushaltsteekanne}} ('household teapot');<ref name=RadioBremen>{{cite web|language=de|title=Eine Teekanne als Filmstar|url=https://www.radiobremen.de/bremenzwei/rubriken/reportagen/utah-teapot100.html|publisher=Radio Bremen|access-date=March 1, 2019|archive-date=April 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401175656/https://www.radiobremen.de/bremenzwei/rubriken/reportagen/utah-teapot100.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> the company only found out about their product's reputation in 2017, whereupon they officially renamed it "Utah Teapot". It was available in three different sizes and various colors; the one Martin Newell had used is the white "1.4&nbsp;l Utah Teapot".<ref name=Teekanne>{{cite web |language=de |title=Teekanne 1,4l Weiß Utah Teapot |url=https://frieslandversand.de/teekanne-1-4l-weiss-utah-teapot?number=1209034011 |publisher=[[Friesland Versand GmbH]] |access-date=November 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329105432/https://frieslandversand.de/teekanne-1-4l-weiss-utah-teapot|archive-date=March 29, 2023}}</ref>

The original teapot is no longer in production, following a fire at [[Friesland Porzellan]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Großbrand zerstört Porzellanfabrik in Varel |language=de |trans-title=Large fire destroys porcelain factory in Varel |author=Der Landesdienst Niedersachsen/Bremen (dpa/lni) |location=Varel, Germany |date=2023-06-30 |work=[[Deutsche Presse-Agentur]] |department=Brände [Fires] |via=[[Süddeutsche Zeitung]] |url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/braende-varel-grossbrand-zerstoert-porzellanfabrik-in-varel-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-230630-99-238140 |access-date=2023-12-25 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231225194841/https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/braende-varel-grossbrand-zerstoert-porzellanfabrik-in-varel-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-230630-99-238140 |archive-date=2023-12-25}}</ref>