Stethoscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1910
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription on this chest piece reads “PILLING SPECIAL / STETHOSCOPE / BOWLES PATENT / G. PILLING & SON, CO. / SOLE M’F’RS / PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.” Robert Caldwell Mackay Bowles (1829-1908) was a physician in Brookline, Ma., who received several stethoscope patents, the first in 1894.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: George E. David
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11499
label: catalog number
content: M-11499
label: accession number
content: 263352
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stethoscope, monaural
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass; rubber; wood; plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 9 1/4 in x 1 5/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 23.495 cm x 4.1275 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 1 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 23.495 cm x 4.7625 cm x 3.1496 cm