String Galvanometer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1914
name: label: maker
content: Cambridge Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: This string galvanometer is one of four pieces of equipment that comprise one of the earliest electrocardiographs in the United States. Built by the Cambridge Scientific Apparatus Co., it incorporates designs of William DuBois Duddell (1872-1917), an English electrical engineer and F.R.S. Dr. Frank Norman Wilson (1890-1952) obtained it for the Medical Department of the University of Michigan in 1914.
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 the University of Michigan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06773
label: catalog number
content: M-06774
label: accession number
content: 203310
label: model number
content: 16947
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Galvanometer, String
label: Object Name
content: electrocardiograph, string galvanometer
label: Object Name
content: galvanometer, string, electrocardiograph
label: Other Terms
content: Galvanometer, String; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 3/4 in x 6 in x 12 in; 29.845 cm x 15.24 cm x 30.48 cm