Hemoglobinometer
name: label: maker
content: Rieker Instrument Company
label: maker
content: Rieker Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: Arthur Dare, a Philadelphia physician, devised a handheld instrument that detected anemia by comparing blood samples on slides to red colored glass backlit by a candle. An inscription in the lid of the case of this example reads “The Dare / Hemoglobinometer / MADE BY / RIEKER INSTRUMENT CO. / PHILADELPHIA, PA. U.S.A.” The Rieker Instrument Co. was established in 1917.
label: Description
content: Ref: Arthur Dare, “A New Hemoglobinometer for the Examination of Undiluted Blood,” Philadelphia Medical Journal (Sept. 22, 1900).
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: MG.M-12154
label: catalog number
content: M-12154
label: accession number
content: 271462
objectType: label: Object Name
content: diagnostic
label: Object Name
content: blood testing apparatus
label: Object Name
content: hemoglobinometer
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 9 in x 6 1/4 in; 5.3975 cm x 22.86 cm x 15.875 cm