Baumanometer
date: label: date made
content: 1944
name: label: maker
content: W. A. Baum Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: William A. Baum (1891-1964) invented a machine for measuring blood pressure, termed it a Baumanometer and established a firm to make and market it. The firm gave this example to the Smithsonian in 1944. The inscription reads “Baumanometer / REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. / BLOOD-PRESSURE STANDARD / THE WORLD OVER / U.S. PATS. NOS. 1594039 & 1821902 / MADE IN U.S.A. / W.A. BAUM Co. Inc. - NEW YORK / KOMPAK MODEL.”
label: Description
content: Ref: William A. Baum, “Manometer,” U.S. Patent 1,594,039 (July 27, 1926), assigned to W. A. Baum Co.
label: Description
content: William A. Baum, “Manometer,” U.S. Patent 1,821,902 (Sept. 1, 1931), assigned to W. A. Baum Co., Inc.
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 W. A. Baum Co. Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-05267
label: catalog number
content: M-05267
label: accession number
content: 168968
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sphygmomanometer
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 11 3/4 in x 3 7/8 in; 3.81 cm x 29.845 cm x 9.8425 cm