Kymograph
name: label: maker
content: Harvard Apparatus
notes: label: Description
content: William Townsend Porter was a professor who made experimental physiological apparatus in a shop in the basement of the Harvard Medical School. That project led to the establishment of the Harvard Apparatus Co., a non-profit educational institution, in 1901. That firm is now part of the Harvard Bioscience family of companies, headquartered in Holliston, Ma. Alfred Einstein Cohn (1879-1957), one of the first cardiologists in the United States, used this Harvard Apparatus kymograph in the early 1920s.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Alfred Cohn Dies; Cardiologist, 78,” New York Times (July 23, 1957), p. 25.
label: Description
content: A. J. Carlson, “William Townsend Porter, 1862-1949,” Science 110 (July 29, 1949): 111-112.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Rockefeller Institute through Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, President
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09351
label: catalog number
content: M-09351
label: accession number
content: 224610
label: catalog number
content: 224610.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Kymograph
label: Other Terms
content: Kymograph; Diagnostic Medicine