Astropulse 10, Electronic Self-taking Blood Pressure Kit
date: label: date made
content: ca 1980
name: label: distributor
content: Marshall Electronics, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: J. D. Marshall International, Inc., an import-export business in Skokie, Ill., was established in 1952 by Marshall Frankel (1928-1986) and Joel Honigberg (1926-2017). In 1968, after Frankel spent the summer in Japan, the partners decided to import electronics, and to form Marshall Electronics, Inc. The Astro Pulse sphygmomanometer was their first important product.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Medical Equipment Importer Adding To Sales With Tape Diversification,” <i>Billboard</i> (April 17, 1971).
label: Description
content: Anne Douglas, “Let Beeps Read Blood Pressure,” <i>Chicago Tribune</i> (July 25, 1976), p. S-A8.
label: Description
content: “International trader Marshall Frankel, 58,” <i>Chicago Tribune</i> (Aug. 30, 1986), p. 8.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan: Japan
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN83538U13
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Kit, Sphygmomanometer
label: Other Terms
content: Kit, Sphygmomanometer; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall`: 14 cm x 17 cm x 4.5 cm; 5 1/2 in x 6 11/16 in x 1 25/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 8 in x 5 1/4 in; 12.065 cm x 20.32 cm x 13.335 cm