Faught Blood Pressure Apparatus
date: label: patent date
content: 1909-04-06
notes: label: Description
content: Francis Ashley Faught (1881-1963) was a physician who promoted and designed sphygmomanometers. Inscriptions on this example read “FAUGHT BLOOD PRESSURE APPARATUS / MADE BY / G. PILLING & SON CO. / PAT. APR. 6, 1909 / PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.” and “2420.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Francis Ashley Faught, “Apparatus for Measuring and Indicating Blood-Pressure,” U.S. Patent 917,276 (April 6, 1909), assigned to George P. Pilling and Son, Company.
label: Description
content: Francis Ashley Faught, <i>Blood Pressure Primer: The Sphygmomanometer and Its Practical Application</i> (Philadelphia: Pilling, 1914).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.735.01
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.735.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Case
label: Object Name
content: case, sphygmomanometer
label: Other Terms
content: Case; Blood Pressure Determination
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood, mahogany (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 11 cm x 10.6 cm x 40.7 cm; 4 11/32 in x 4 3/16 in x 16 1/32 in