Vectorcardiograph Power Supply
name: label: maker
content: Offner Electronics
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on this vectorcardiograph reads in part “OFFNER ELECTRONICS INC.” Frank Offner (1911-1999), having recently earned a Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Chicago, established Offner Electronics in 1938. That firm made Geiger counters during World War II and EEG machines in the post-war period. After Offner Electronics merged with Beckman Instruments in 1961, Offner became a professor at Northwestern University. His many honors included membership in the National Academy of Engineering.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donation of George E. Burch, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0186.170
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0186.170
label: accession number
content: 1980.0186
label: collector/donor number
content: 145
label: serial number
content: 108
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vectorcardiograph, part
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 in x 21 in x 14 7/8 in; 71.12 cm x 53.34 cm x 37.7825 cm