Heart Patient Simulator Materials
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Messmore, George Harold
label: Collection Creator
content: Messmore and Damon Company
label: Collection Creator
content: Damon, Joseph
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content: Messmore and Damon Company Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1977 - 1998
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0846, Series 7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Francis B. Messmore and Michael Gordon developed a patient simulator/teaching device in 1972 (US Patent 3,662,076) for use in simulating various normal and abnormal cardiac conditions in the human body. The University of Miami entered into an agreement with Messmore and Damon to manufacture the heart patient simulator, known initially as "Harvey" (named afterDr. W. Proctor Harvey, a Georgetown University medical School cardiologist and teacher. The simulator would later become known as  "George"  named after George H. Messmore. " Francis Messmore also patented a cardiac training mannikin in 1985 (US Patent 4,601,665). 

This series consists of correspondence, product literature, drawings, and patent-related materials surrounding the development, manufacture, and sales of the patient simulator.