Splint
date: label: date made
content: 1888
label: date made
content: after 1888
name: label: maker
content: J. Ellwood Lee Company
notes: label: Description
content: Perforated metal patella (knee) splint with a “LEE'S PATENT / OCT 30TH 1888 / LEFT” inscription. This was made by the J. E. Lee Co. Company, a firm in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, that was begun by John Elwood Lee (1860-1914), and that offered various medical and surgical apparatus.
label: Description
content: Ref: J. Elwood Lee, “Manufacture of Sheet-Metal Splints,” U.S. Patent 376,666 (Jan. 17, 1888).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Conshohocken
topic: label: Subject
content: Prosthesis
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine, Prostheses
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.315
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.315
objectType: label: Object Name
content: splint, patella
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 34.7 cm x 10.5 cm x 5 cm; 13 21/32 in x 4 1/8 in x 1 31/32 in