Twin Coil Artificial Kidney
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1955
name: label: maker
content: Kolff Laboratory
notes: label: Description
content: Twin coil kidney. Plastic cylinder with plastic screen wrapped around in many layers. Cloth tape around outside holds screens together. Cylinder is closed at bottom and open at top. Two tubes are connected to a plastic pouch under the first layer of screen.
label: Description
content: The twin coil kidney was originially made with metal juice cans, but this version uses a plastic copy of the shape of the juice can. The screen was developed by Prof. Hoeltzenbein and holds cellophane tubing between the layers. The twin coil kidney was used worldwide by 1955.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0035.002
label: accession number
content: 1998.0035
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0035.002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Artificial Kidney
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 18.415 cm x 16.51 cm