Electrostethoscope, Model 1A
notes: label: Description
content: Stuart Ballantine (1897-1944) was an inventor, amateur radio enthusiast, and head of Ballatine Laboratories in Boonton, New Jersey. This device was developed in the early 1930s, but never produced commercially. The inscription reads “ELECTROSTETHOSCOPE / MODEL 1A / BOONTOWN RESEARCH CORPORATION / BOONTOWN, N.J.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “S. Ballantine Dies; Radio Engineer, 46,” <i>New York Times</i> (May 8, 1944), p. 19.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Boonton
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ballantine Laboratories, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11138
label: accession number
content: 256739
label: catalog number
content: M-11138
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic stethoscope
label: Object Name
content: electrostethoscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 in x 16 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in; 48.26 cm x 41.91 cm x 26.67 cm