Olympus Gastro Camera III
date: label: date made
content: 1950s
name: label: maker
content: Olympus
notes: label: Description
content: The first attempts to develop a gastrocamera, made by in Germany in 1898, failed to develop a device for practical use. In 1949, at the behest of a doctor at the University of Tokyo Medical Center, the Olympus Optical Co. decided to tackle the problem. A prototype was unveiled the following year, and commercial models followed soon thereafter.
label: Description
content: The Olympus Corporation (Orinpasu Kabushiki-gaisha), a Japanese manufacturer of optical apparatus, began as Takachiho Seisakusho in October 1919, specializing in microscopes and thermometers. It began manufacturing cameras in 1936, and it became the Olympus Optical Co., Ltd. in 1949. The Olympus Corporation of America was established in 1968 and donated this example to the Smithsonian in 1970.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan: Tōkyō, Tokyo
topic: label: associated subject
content: Endoscopy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Olympus Corporation of America
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.288256.01
label: catalog number
content: 288256.01
label: accession number
content: 288256
label: serial number
content: 200164
label: serial number
content: 200163
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gastroscope set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: film tank: 1 in x 16 3/8 in x 3/8 in; 2.54 cm x 41.5925 cm x .9525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 36 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in; 11.1125 cm x 92.71 cm x 16.51 cm