Pneumothorax Apparatus
name: label: maker
content: J. Sklar Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on this device reads in part “DAVIDSON / PNEUMOTHORAX / APPARATUS / PAT. NO. 1916658. . . J. SKLAR MANUFACTURING CO. / LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Louis R. Davidson, “Pneumothorax Apparatus,” U.S. Patent 1,916,658 (July 4, 1933).
label: Description
content: Louis R. Davidson, “The Evolution of Modern Pneumothorax Machines,” American Review of Tuberculosis 40 (1939): 546-564.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Queens, Long Island City
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0038.02
label: catalog number
content: 2016.3010.02
label: accession number
content: 2017.0038
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pneumothorax apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: box: 4 1/8 in x 18 in x 8 3/4 in; 10.4775 cm x 45.72 cm x 22.225 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: instruction manual: 1/16 in x 8 1/2 in x 5 3/4 in; .15875 cm x 21.59 cm x 14.605 cm