Sanborn Cardiette Electrocardiograph
name: label: maker
content: Sanborn Company
notes: label: Description
content: James L. Jenks, Jr. (1896-1983) was an electrical engineer who spent his career with the Sanborn Instrument Co., eventually becoming president of the firm. Paul Dudley White (1886-1973) was a cardiologist at the Harvard Medical School. In the summer of 1952, the two men took electrocardiograms of a Beluga whale in the Bering Sea, using this Sanborn electrocardiograph for that purpose.
label: Description
content: Ref: Robert L. King, James L. Jenks, Jr., and Paul D. White, “The Electrocardiogram of a Beluga Whale,” <i>Circulation</i> 8 (1953): 387-393.
label: Description
content: “James L. Jenks, Jr. 87, helped to perfect EKGs,” <i>Boston Globe</i> (Aug. 19, 1983), p. 54.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06699 [dup1]
label: patent number
content: 2180160
label: patent number
content: 2,180,160
label: accession number
content: 199559
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electrocardiograph