Pacemaker
date: label: Date made
content: 1976
name: label: maker
content: Intermedics
notes: label: Description
content: Herbert Beutel, a Medtronics salesman who recognized the advantages of the new lithium battery for pacemakers, established Intermedics in Freeport, Tx., in late 1973. The firm introduced the term INTERLITH to commerce in 1976. An inscription on the case of this pacemaker reads “C-MOS-I / INTERLITH / Intermedics, Inc. / FREEPORT, TEXAS / U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Intermedics: Is Glitter Gone?” New York Times (March 20, 1979), p. D8.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Texas, Freeport
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Arthur A. Ciarkowski
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0337.07
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0337.07
label: accession number
content: 2003.0337
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pacemaker
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: pacemaker
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 cm x 4.7 cm x 1.5 cm; 2 3/8 in x 1 7/8 in x 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 2 in x 5/8 in; 6.0325 cm x 5.08 cm x 1.5875 cm