Hufnagel Plastic Intracardiac Valve
date: label: Date made
content: 1940s-1950s
name: label: maker
content: Hufnagel, Charles A.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This is a prototype of an early artificial heart valve developed by pioneering heart surgeon Dr. Charles Hufnagel (1916-1989) and his team at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Hufnagel experimented with a variety of new platic materials but settled on polymethylmethacrylate, a hard clear plastic more popularly known by the trade name of Plexiglas or Lucite.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: California, Santa Ana
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Prosthesis
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Charles A. Hufnagel, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11582.03
label: accession number
content: 267860
label: catalog number
content: M-11582.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Heart valve, prosthetic
label: Object Name
content: valve
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 7/8 in x 2 in x 1 5/8 in; 7.3025 cm x 5.08 cm x 4.1275 cm