Blood Glucose Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1986
name: label: maker
content: Miles Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: A glucometer measures blood glucose. The first example was made by the Ames division of Miles Laboratories and introduced to the market in 1981. It was developed by Anton Hubert Clemens, a German engineer who began working for this firm in 1965, and obtained several related patents. This example is a Model 5550. An inscription reads “AMES DIVISION MILES LABORATORIES INC., P.O. BOX 70, ELKHART, INDIANA 46515.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Elkhart
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Diabetes
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Bettee-Aynn Amsterdam Thomas
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0031.01
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0031.01
label: accession number
content: 2001.0031
objectType: label: Object Name
content: blood glucose meter
label: Object Name
content: reflectance photometer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, synthetic (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.1 cm x 12.7 cm x 6.5 cm; 13/16 in x 5 in x 2 9/16 in