Einthoven String Galvanometer
date: label: date made
content: 1914
name: label: maker
content: Williams-Hindle
notes: label: Description
content: William Einthoven (1860-1927), a physician with a degree from the University of Utrecht who became a professor at the University of Leiden, developed a string galvanometer suitable for electrocardiography, in 1901. In 1924, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for inventing the first practical system of electrocardiography used in medical diagnosis. This Einthoven string galvanometer was designed by Horatio B. Williams, professor of physiology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York; made by Charles F. Hindle, an independent instrument maker; and used by Alfred E. Cohn, a physician affiliated with the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. A label on the object reads “C. F Hindle / Maker / Elmhurst N.Y / U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Alfred E. Cohn and Horatio B. Williams, "Recollections Concerning Early Electrocardiography in the Unted States," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 29 (1955): 469–74.
label: Description
content: Walter S. Root, Ralph H. Kruse, and Kenneth S. Cole, "H. B. Williams, Physician and Physiologist," Science n.s. 124 (1956): 527.
label: Description
content: “Charles F. Hindle, Inventor of a Cardiograph, Dies in Illinois at the Age of 71,” New York Times (Nov. 26, 1946), p. 28.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06800
label: catalog number
content: M-06800
label: accession number
content: 205104
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Galvanometer
label: Object Name
content: string galvanometer
label: Other Terms
content: Galvanometer; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 38.4 cm x 54 cm x 41 cm; 15 1/8 in x 21 1/4 in x 16 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 1/4 in x 22 1/4 in x 17 3/4 in; 38.735 cm x 56.515 cm x 45.085 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: p7097: 26 in x 72 in x 48 in; 66.04 cm x 182.88 cm x 121.92 cm