Jones Motor Basal Metabolism Tester
name: label: maker
content: Harry M. Jones, Middlewest Instrument Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Horry M. Jones (1886-1969) was a bacteriologist affiliated with the University of Illinois School of Medicine. He later established the Jones Metabolism Equipment Co., and obtained several patents for devices pertaining to metabolism.
label: Description
content: An inscription on this device reads “THE JONES BASAL / DEVISED BY HORRY M. JONES, M.D / Pat.-Nov.-1923-other pat. pending / Mfd. by MIDDLEWEST INSTRUMENT CO. / 1870 S. Ogden Avenue / Chicago, Ill.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Horry M. Jones, “A Simple Device for Measuring Rate of Metabolism,” Archives of Internal Medicine 27 (1921): 48-60.
label: Description
content: Ad for “The New METABOLIMETER,” in The American Journal of Medical Sciences 161 (Feb. 1921): 11.
label: Description
content: Robert C. Lewis, “The Jones ‘Metabolimeter’,” in Frank B. Sanborn, ed., Basal Metabolism (Boston, 1922), pp. 104-116.
label: Description
content: Horry M. Jones, “Measuring Device,” U.S. Patent 1,474,904 (Nov. 20, 1923).
label: Description
content: "Dr. Horry Jones," Chicago Tribune (June 22, 1969), p. A10.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11559.01
label: accession number
content: 264486
label: catalog number
content: M-11559.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Metabolism Unit
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 105 cm x 43 cm x 23.8 cm; 41 5/16 in x 16 15/16 in x 9 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 42 1/2 in x 9 1/4 in x 16 in; 107.95 cm x 23.495 cm x 40.64 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: container: 4 5/8 in x 3 in x 1 1/4 in; 11.7475 cm x 7.62 cm x 3.175 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: container: 10 1/2 in x 8 in x 1 1/4 in; 26.67 cm x 20.32 cm x 3.175 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: container: 13 in x 12 in x 1/16 in; 33.02 cm x 30.48 cm x .15875 cm