Electrocardiograph
date: label: date made
content: 1937
name: label: maker
content: Beck-Lee Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Charles F. Hindle (1876-1946) was a mechanically gifted Englishman who moved to the United States at a young age. While working at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, he built the first string-galvanometer made in the United States. He produced the first American-made electrocardiograph in 1914, and sold designs to the Cambridge Instrument Co. in 1928.
label: Description
content: Hindle then designed a portable electrocardiograph, and sold the rights to the Beck-Lee Corporation, a firm recently established in Chicago. This office model electrocardiograph, serial no. 8300, represents his work. It contains a permanent magnet string galvanometer, and dates from 1937. A metal label reads "Beck-Lee Corporation / Scientific - Precision - Therapeutic Equipment / 628-630 W. Jackson, Blvd. Chicago."
label: Description
content: Ref: “Charles F. Hindle, Inventor of a Cardiograph, Dies in Illinois at the Age of 71,” <i>New York Times</i> (Nov. 26, 1946), p. 28.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Beck-Lee Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06772
label: catalog number
content: M-06772
label: accession number
content: 203311
label: serial number
content: 8300
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrocardiograph
label: Other Terms
content: Electrocardiograph; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 14 in x 28 in; 35.56 cm x 35.56 cm x 71.12 cm