Heart Pump
date: label: Date made
content: 1950
notes: label: Description
content: Willam H. Sewell, Jr. (d. 1993) and William W. L. Glenn (1914-2003) were medical students at Yale College when they used an erector set to make this heart pump.
label: Description
content: Ref: William H. Sewell, Jr., "A Pump for By-Passing the Right Heart of Dogs: A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine" (1950).
label: Description
content: “DEVISE MECHANICAL HEART / Two Yale Surgeons Make Pump Used Successfully on Dogs,” New York Times (Sept. 28, 1950), p. 33.
label: Description
content: “William Glenn, 88, Surgeon Who Invented Heart Procedure,” New York Times (March 17, 2003), p. B7.
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 Mrs. William H. Sewell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-08016
label: accession number
content: 223480
label: catalog number
content: M-08016
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pump, Heart
label: Object Name
content: heart pump
label: Object Name
content: heart, artificial
label: Object Name
content: pump
label: Object Name
content: thesis
label: Other Terms
content: Pump, Heart; Prostheses; Heart
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: stone (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 9.2 cm x 26.5 cm x 33.5 cm; 3 5/8 in x 10 7/16 in x 13 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 12 in x 14 1/4 in; 9.525 cm x 30.48 cm x 36.195 cm