Anesthesia Machine
notes: label: Description
content: Anesthesia machine with three valves and a “KINET-O-METER" inscription. The Heidbrink Co. was organized by Jay Heidbrink in Minneapolis, in 1910; and acquired by the Ohio Chemical Manufacturing Co. in the late 1930s. It introduced the term “Kinet-O-Meter” to commerce in 1933 and obtained a trademark the following year. This machine was made ca. 1950.
label: Description
content: Max Ming-Kwai Zung (ca. 1922-2008), the donor of this item, was an anesthesiologist who studied at Columbia University and worked in Washington, D.C.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: District of Columbia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Max M-K Zung, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0209.01
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0209.01
label: accession number
content: 1983.0209
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Anesthesia Machine
label: Other Terms
content: Anesthesia Machine; Anesthesia Apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 122 cm x 91.5 cm; 48 1/16 in x 36 in