Hermon Taylor Flexible Gastroscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1941
notes: label: Description
content: This gastroscope is named after Hermon Taylor (1905-2001), a British surgeon who developed an improved flexible-end endoscope after seeing the work of Rudolph Schindler and Georg Wolf in Berlin. The endoscope was manufactured by the Genito-Urinary Manufacturing Company, Ltd. Inscriptions read "Patent No 548462 / Genito Urinary / London."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: associated subject
content: Endoscopy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Eder Instrument Co.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-13889
label: patent number
content: 548462
label: catalog number
content: M-13889
label: accession number
content: 299052
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gastroscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 31 in x 2 1/2 in; 6.35 cm x 78.74 cm x 6.35 cm