Anesthesia Machine
name: label: maker
content: Teter Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Charles K. Teter (1876-1959), an Ohio dentist, promoted the use of anesthesia for dentistry and childbirth. His first patent for an anesthesia machine was issued in 1902. The inscription on this example reads "Teter Mfg Co., Cleveland, Ohio.”
label: Description
content: Ref: F. Hoefer M’Mechan, “The Teeter Apparatus,” The Lancet (June 18, 1910): 646-649.
label: Description
content: Ad for the “Teter Improved Apparatus No. 2” for delivering nitrous oxide and oxygen, in Oral Hygiene (1911): 882.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Charles K. Teter,” New York Times (May 31, 1959), p. 76.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cleveland
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: W. Harry Archer, D.D.S.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07157
label: catalog number
content: M-07157
label: accession number
content: 218892
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Apparatus, Teter
label: Object Name
content: anesthesia machine
label: Other Terms
content: Apparatus, Teter; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 94.5 cm x 28.4 cm; 37 7/32 in x 11 3/16 in