Anesthesia Machine
date: label: Date made
content: 1950 - 1959
notes: label: Description
content: This is the first anesthesia machine used with a Stephenson controlled breathing apparatus. An inscription reads “FOREGGER / PAT’D. 19-1936 / JARVIS AND JARVIS INC. PALMER, MASS U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Richard von Foregger (1872-1960) was born in Vienna, studied chemistry in Germany and Switzerland, and moved to the United States in 1898 to work with Charles Steinmetz at the General Electric Company. He started his own firm in 1914, designing and manufacturing oxygen machines.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dr. R. V. Foregger, Medical Supplier,” New York Times (Jan. 20, 1960), p. 31.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: New York, Roslyn
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Richard Foregger
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11591
label: accession number
content: 267866
label: catalog number
content: M-11591
label: serial number
content: 3021
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Anesthesia Machine
label: Other Terms
content: Anesthesia Machine; Anesthesia Apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 122.1 cm x 56.7 cm; 48 1/16 in x 22 5/16 in