Blood Pressure Apparatus
name: label: maker
content: George P. Pilling and Son Company
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription on the lid of the box holding this instrument reads “Faught Pocket Blood Pressure Apparatus / MADE BY / G. P. PILLING & SON COMPANY / Philadelphia, U.S.A.” Francis Ashley Faught (1881-1963) was a physician who promoted sphygmomanometers.
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, Blood Pressure Primer: The Sphygmomanometer and Its Practical Application (Philadelphia: Pilling, 1914).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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: 2000.0277.12
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0277.12
label: accession number
content: 2000.0277
objectType: label: Object Name
content: apparatus, blood pressure
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.5 cm x 20.5 cm x 10.5 cm; 2 5/32 in x 8 1/16 in x 4 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 8 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in; 5.3975 cm x 21.59 cm x 10.795 cm