Sanborn Viso Electrocardiograph
name: label: maker
content: Sanborn Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Sanborn Co., of Cambridge, Mass., began making electrocardiographs in the 1930s. Their Viso Cardiette Model 51 was a portable instrument with an electrically heated stylus that left a trace on heat-sensitive plastic-coated paper. The form was on the market by 1950. This example, serial number 4189, was made before the firm’s move to Waltham in 1959.
label: Description
content: Ref: Notice in <i>Journal of the American Medical Association</i> 143 (1950): 1487.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donation of George E. Burch, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0186.141
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0186.141
label: accession number
content: 1980.0186
label: serial number
content: 4189
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ekg unit
label: Object Name
content: electrocardiograph
label: Object Name
content: electrocardiograph electrocardiograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 45 cm x 31 cm x 41.3 cm; 17 23/32 in x 12 7/32 in x 16 1/4 in