Cardiotron Electrocardiograph
notes: label: Description
content: The Cardiotron, unveiled in early 1946, was a direct-reading electrocardiograph developed by Paul Traugott, president and chief engineer of Electro-Physical Laboratories, Inc., a division of the Electronics Corporation of America. The inscription on this example reads "Cardiotron: Electro-Physical Laboratories / Rye, New York / Model PG-2, Serial no. 7865.”
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content: Ref: “New Weapon to Aid War on Heart Disease,” <i>New York Herald Tribune</i> (Jan. 4, 1946).
label: Description
content: “Direct Recording,” <i>Science News Letter</i> 49 (Jan. 19, 1946): 37.
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content: “Cardiotron,” <i>Radio News</i> (March 1946): 21.
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content: Paul Traugott, “Electrocardiograph,” U.S. Patent 2,412,639 (Dec. 17, 1946).
label: Description
content: Paul Traugott, “Electrocardiograph,” U.S. Patent 2,439,640 (April 13, 1948).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donation of George E. Burch, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0186.077
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0186.079
label: accession number
content: 1980.0186
label: model number
content: PG-2
label: serial number
content: 7865
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electrocardiograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 23.6 cm x 36.4 cm x 30 cm; 9 9/32 in x 14 11/32 in x 11 13/16 in