Hepcon System Four Heparin Analyzer
date: label: Date made
content: 1982 - 1983
notes: label: Description
content: Walter Jacob Braun (1929-2019)—nuclear scientist, financial analyst, venture capitalist, inventor and entrepreneur—established Hemotec in Englewood, Colorado, in the mid-1970s. According to a notice in The Cincinnati Enquirer (July 19, 1981), p. D-4: “A Denver hematologist in 1974 asked Walter Braun, a former technical writer, to look over an article intended for a scientific journal. Braun was surprised to learn that many serious problems, including death from loss of blood, were occurring in operating rooms because open heart surgery patients were not receiving the correct amount of drugs to promote or inhibit blood coagulation. Braun helped design a device that monitors patients’ blood and calculates how much coagulant or anticoagulant they need. To market the machine, he founded Hemotec.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Colorado, Englewood
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: HemoTec, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0033.01
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0033.01
label: accession number
content: 1993.0033
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Heparin Analyzer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, stainless steel (overall material)
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content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
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content: blue (overall color)
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content: black (overall color)
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content: yellow (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 112.3 cm x 84 cm x 46 cm; 44 3/16 in x 33 1/16 in x 18 1/8 in