Hemoglobin Meter
name: label: maker
content: American Optical Company
notes: label: Description
content: Compact and portable medical instrument designed to determine the quantity of hemoglobin in blood. At its heart is a polished glass wedge, graded in color, against which the blood sample can be matched. The form was known by 1952. Inscriptions read “AO” and “SPENCER”.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Steven Radoff
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0014.01
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0014.01
label: accession number
content: 1993.0014
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hemoglobin meter
label: Object Name
content: diagnostic
label: Object Name
content: blood testing apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 18.9 cm x 13.3 cm x 4.4 cm; 7 7/16 in x 5 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in x 7 3/8 in x 5 1/4 in; 4.7625 cm x 18.7325 cm x 13.335 cm