Pacemaker
date: label: Date made
content: about 1964
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description
content: Adrian Kantrowitz (1918-2008) was the New York cardiologist who performed the first human heart transplant in the United States, in 1967. He also, in conjunction with General Electric, devised an early implantable pacemaker. He gave this experimental model of that device to the Smithsonian in 1970.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, Cardiac Pioneer, Dies at 90,” New York Times (Nov. 19, 2008), p. A33.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Adrian Kantrowitz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12981
label: accession number
content: 290303
label: catalog number
content: M-12981
label: accession number
content: 290303
label: catalog number
content: M-12981
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pacemaker
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: pacemaker
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.9 cm x 6.7 cm x 2.1 cm; 2 5/16 in x 2 5/8 in x 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 2.2225 cm x 6.985 cm x 6.35 cm