Cambridge "Simpli-Trol" Portable Electrocardiograph
date: label: date made
content: 1944-1952
name: label: maker
content: Cambridge Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: Charles F. Hindle, a mechanic in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, made a string galvanometer suitable for electrocardiographic work in 1915, and established his own firm soon thereafter. In 1922, the Hindle Instrument Co. joined with the Cambridge Instrument Co. in New York, becoming the Cambridge Instrument Company of North America.
label: Description
content: The Cambridge Instrument Co. exhibited two new and portable electrocardiographs—the Simpli-Trol, and the Simpli-Scribe—at the A.A.A.S. Science Exposition held in December 1949. This example was used at the Veterans Hospital in Alexandria, Louisiana. An inscription reads “SIMPLI-TROL PORTABLE MODEL / HINDLE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH / NO. 0-38439 / MADE BY CAMBRIDGE INSTRUMENT CO.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 1980.0186.080
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0186.080
label: accession number
content: 1980.0186
label: serial number
content: 0-38439
label: collector/donor number
content: 162
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ekg unit, portable
label: Object Name
content: electrocardiograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 48.8 cm x 20 cm x 19 cm; 19 7/32 in x 7 7/8 in x 7 15/32 in