Cytoscope
date: label: date made
content: 1910-1917
name: label: maker
content: Wappler Electric Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: A tag on the wooden box holding this cystoscope reads “A.C.M.I. / TRADE MARK / REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.” Inscriptions inside the box read “WAPPLER ELECTRIC MFG. CO., NEW YORK, U.S.A.” and “A.C.M.I. / PATENTED / TRADE MARK.” Reinhold H. Wappler (1870-1933) was born in Germany, obtained a technical education in instrument making, and moved to the United States in 1890. He began his own business, Wappler & Fayer, in New York, in 1897; this became Wappler Electric Mfg. Co. in 1910. He established the American Cytoscope Co. in 1903.
label: Description
content: Ref: “REINHOLD WAPPLER DIES ON A TOUR,” New York Times (July 6, 1933), p. 21.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: associated subject
content: Endoscopy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Shepard Jerome
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06978
label: catalog number
content: M-06978
label: accession number
content: 214894
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cystoscopes
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: box: 2 1/2 in x 12 5/8 in x 4 1/4 in; 6.35 cm x 32.0675 cm x 10.795 cm