Electric Shock Therapy Apparatus - Offner Electronics, Inc, Chicago - Type 732
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1940s
name: label: maker
content: Offner Electronics
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on the instrument reads “ELECTRIC SHOCK THERAPY APPARATUS—OFFNER ELECTRONICS INC.—CHICAGO / TYPE 732 SER. 325—105-125 VOLTS—50-60 CYCLES A.C.”
label: Description
content: Franklin F. Offner (1911-1999) was remembered as a scientist, inventor, industrialist, teacher, and artist, as well as a friend, collaborator, colleague, and bona fide genius. He graduated from Cornell University in 1933, earned a M.S. from the California Institute of Technology, and then transferred to the University of Chicago where he earned a physics Ph.D. and a reputation as an electronics expert. He established Offner Electronics in 1938. This firm was acquired by Beckman Instruments in 1961. Two years later, Offner became a professor of bioengineering at Northwestern University.
label: Description
content: Ref: "F. F. Offner, technology pioneer," Chicago Tribune (May 2, 1999), p. L-A9.
label: Description
content: Alvin F. Weinberg and Peter J. Dallos, “Franklin F. Offner,” in National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, <i>Memorial Tributes</i> 10 (2002): 188-192.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Disabilities
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Robert H. Groh, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0261.01
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0261.01
label: accession number
content: 1992.0261
label: serial number
content: 325
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ECT Machine
label: Object Name
content: Electric Shock Therapy Apparatus
label: Object Name
content: electric shock therapy apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood, walnut (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
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content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 28.3 cm x 40.1 cm x 22.6 cm; 11 1/8 in x 15 13/16 in x 8 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 16 in x 9 1/2 in; 30.48 cm x 40.64 cm x 24.13 cm