Drunkometer
date: label: date made
content: 1930s
name: label: maker
content: Harger, Rolla N.
notes: label: Description
content: Rola Neil Harger (1890-1983), professor of Biochemistry and Toxicology at the Indiana University School of Medicine, developed an instrument—he called it a Drunkometer—to determine the amount of alcohol in the breath and tissues. In 1938, Dr. Harger was chosen to be on the National Safety Council subcommittee that drafted the legislation that set the blood alcohol content for driving under the influence.
label: Description
content: Ref: Rolla N. Harger, “Apparatus For and Process of Readily Determining Alcohol Concentrations in Live Animals and Solutions,” U.S. Patent 2,062,785 (Dec. 1, 1936).
label: Description
content: “Rolla N. Harger Dies; Invented Drunkometer,” New York Times (Aug. 10, 1983), p. B6.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06484
label: catalog number
content: M-06484
label: accession number
content: 175272
objectType: label: Object Name
content: breath-alcohol analyzer
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 7/8 in x 4 3/4 in x 4 1/8 in; 22.5425 cm x 12.065 cm x 10.4775 cm