Stethoscope
date: label: patent date
content: 1933-10-24
name: label: maker
content: George P. Pilling and Son Company
notes: label: Description
content: Monaural stethoscope with rotatable head piece and earpiece. An inscription on the cardboard box reads in part “GORDON MONAURAL HEART STETHOSCOPE” and “PRICE $5.00.” This instrument incorporated ideas developed by Burgess Gordon, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and Director, Department for Diseases of the Chest at Jefferson Hospital.
label: Description
content: Ref: Burgess Gordon, “Description of a Mon-Aural Diaphragm Type Stethoscope with Discussion of Its Special Field of Usefulness,” American Heart Journal 8 (1933): 845-849.
label: Description
content: Charles J. Pilling and Bruno F. Wiegand, “Stethoscope,” U.S. Patent (October 24, 1933), assigned to the George P. Pilling & Son Company, Philadelphia, Pa.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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: 2012.0165.178
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.178
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
label: patent number
content: US1932227A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stethoscope, monaural
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: box: 2 7/8 in x 8 in x 1 1/4 in; 7.3025 cm x 20.32 cm x 3.175 cm
label: Measurements
content: stethoscope: 7 1/2 in x 2 5/8 in x 1 in; 19.05 cm x 6.6675 cm x 2.54 cm