Stethoscope Chest Piece
name: label: maker
content: Becton, Dickinson and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Andrew W. Fleischer (1882-1983) was a Wisconsin pharmacist who developed a stethoscope, sold his patent to Becton-Dickenson, and then joined that firm in New Jersey. The inscription on this chest piece reads “FLEISCHER STETHOSCOPE / B-D / BECTON-DICKENSON. . . / RUTHERFORD, N.J.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Andrew W. Fleischer, “Stethoscope,” U.S. Patent 2,675,087 (April 13, 1954), assigned to Becton, Dickinson and Company.
label: Description
content: “Andrew Fleischer, 101, Stethoscope Developer,” <i>New York Times</i> (Jan. 14, 1983), p. D15.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0165.174
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.174
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chest piece
label: Object Name
content: stethoscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 1 7/8 in x 1/2 in; 6.0325 cm x 4.7625 cm x 1.27 cm