Piezoelectric Micromanipulator
date: label: date made
content: 1950s
notes: label: Description
content: Gordon W. Ellis designed and built this piezoelectric micromanipulator in the 1950s, while he was a biology graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Ellis later taught at the Dartmouth Medical School, and then at the University of Pennsylvania.
label: Description
content: Ref: Gordon W. Ellis, “Piezoelectric Micromanipulators,” Science 138 (1962): 84-91.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Berkeley
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Joyce Ellis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0181.01
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0181.01
label: accession number
content: 2013.0181
objectType: label: Object Name
content: micromanipulator, piezoelectric
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal; wood; plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: part: base: 10 in x 12 3/4 in x 13 in; 25.4 cm x 32.385 cm x 33.02 cm
label: Measurements
content: part: joystick: 8 1/16 in x 12 1/16 in x 17 in; 20.47875 cm x 30.63875 cm x 43.18 cm