Sigmamotor Cross-Circulation Heart Pump
date: label: date made
content: 1953
name: label: maker
content: Sigmamotor Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Heart pump with an inscription that reads “Sigmamotor / Model TM1 Serial 227 / Patent No. 2,546,852 / Middleport, NY.” The referenced patent was issued to Ernest Ruckle Corneil (1897-1971), an engineer working for E. I. DuPont de Nemours in Niagara Falls, N.Y.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ernest Ruckle Corneil, “Pumping Means,” U.S. Patent 2,546,852 (March 27, 1951).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Alfred R. Henderson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11170.01
label: catalog number
content: M-11170
label: accession number
content: 259276
label: patent number
content: 2,546,852
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Heart Pump
label: Other Terms
content: Heart Pump; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metals (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: electrical cord (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: motors (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 35 cm x 146 cm x 35 cm; 13 3/4 in x 57 1/2 in x 13 3/4 in