Developmental Model of a Human Heart
date: label: date made
content: 1885
name: label: Associated Name
content: Ziegler, Friedrich
label: maker
content: Ziegler Studio
notes: label: Description
content: Adolf Ziegler (1820-1889) opened an Atelier für wissenschaftliche Unterrichtsmodelle (Studio for Scientific Teaching Models) in Leipzig in the 1860s. His son, Friedrich Ziegler (d. 1936) continued the firm. This model is the eighth in a 12 piece set of Ziegler models showing the development of the human heart, based on the ideas of Wilhelm His. It is made of wax and sits on a round wooden base painted black. The Smithsonian bought it in 1895.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Saxony, Leipzig
label: Associated Place
content: Germany: Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg
topic: label: Subject
content: Anatomy
label: Subject
content: Education
label: Subject
content: Cardiology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10289.08
label: accession number
content: 29042
label: catalog number
content: M-10289.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Anatomical Model
label: Object Name
content: model, anatomical, human heart
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in; 19.685 cm x 10.795 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.2 cm x 10.7 cm; 7 15/16 in x 4 3/16 in