Pacemaker
date: label: date made
content: 1975
name: label: maker
content: Medtronic
label: maker
content: Medtronic Incorporated
notes: label: Description
content: Pacemaker with a “Medtronic / 5951 PULSE GENERATOR / VENTRICULAR INHIBITED / SN 4Y00398 USA” inscription. The Xytron pacemaker, of which this is an example, contained a mercury zinc battery. It was introduced to market in early 1975, and intended as an interim product while Medtronic prepared its new lithium powered pacemaker.
label: Description
content: Ref: Kirk Jeffrey, Machines in our Hearts: The Cardiac Pacemaker, The Implantable Defibrillator, And American Health Care (Baltimore, 2001).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Minnesota, Minneapolis
topic: label: used
content: Medical Procedure- Surgery
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Seymour Furman, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0192.01
label: accession number
content: 2001.0192
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0192.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pacemaker
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: pacemaker
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in x 1 in; 6.35 cm x 5.715 cm x 2.54 cm