Microlith P #0505
date: label: Date made
content: Circa 1978
name: label: maker
content: Cardiac Pacemakers Incorporated
notes: label: Description
content: Kidney shaped titanium pacemaker with a “MICROLITH V / TYPE VVI / MODEL 0505 / SN PG 107859 . . .” inscription on one side; and “CARDLAB PACEMAKER / ST. PAUL, MINN. U.S.A. / U.S. PAT. NO. 303. . . / OTHER PATS. PENDING” on the other. Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. was founded by several Medtronic employees, in St Paul, in early 1972, and offered the first pacemakers with lithium-powered batteries.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Minnesota, St. Paul
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Seymour Furman, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0192.02
label: accession number
content: 2001.0192
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0192.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pacemaker
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: pacemaker
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.3 cm x 5.6 cm x 1.8 cm; 2 1/16 in x 2 3/16 in x 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 2 1/4 in x 7/8 in; 5.3975 cm x 5.715 cm x 2.2225 cm