Baumanometer "Pocket Model" Sphygmomanometer
name: label: maker
content: W. A. Baum Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: William A. Baum (1891-1964) invented a machine for measuring blood pressure in 1910, termed it a Baumanometer, and established a firm to make and market it. The inscription on this example reads "Baumanometer / Pat. Pend. Trademark / Pocket Model / W.A. Baum Co., Inc., New York.”
label: Description
content: Ref: William A. Baum, “Manometer,” U.S. Patent 1,594,039 (July 27, 1926), assigned to W. A. Baum Co.
label: Description
content: “W. A. Baum, Inventor of a Medical Device,” <i>New York Times</i> (Oct. 27, 1964), p. 39.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donation of George E. Burch, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0186.053
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0186.053
label: accession number
content: 1980.0186
label: collector/donor number
content: 075
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sphygmomanometer
label: Object Name
content: blood pressure recorder
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 25.9 cm x 7.9 cm x 3.9 cm; 10 3/16 in x 3 1/8 in x 1 17/32 in