Manometer
name: label: maker
content: Becton, Dickinson and Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Fleischer spinal manometer for measuring cerebrospinal fluid was introduced in 1921 by Andrew W. Fleischer (1882-1983), a Chicago pharmacist. That same year, Fleischer’s firm merged with the New Jersey medical equipment manufacturer, Becton-Dickinson, and that firm manufactured Fleischer’s spinal manometer through the mid-1960s. An inscription on this example reads “FLEISCHER SPINAL MANOMETER / B-D / BECTON, DICKINSON & CO. / RUTHERFORD...”
label: Description
content: Ref: “A. Fleischer, developer of stethoscope,” Chicago Tribune (Jan. 13, 1983), p. B14.
label: Description
content: “Andrew Fleischer, 101, Stethoscope Developer,” New York Times (Jan. 14, 1983), p. D15.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Rutherford
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.177
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.177
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Case
label: Object Name
content: manometer, spinal
label: Other Terms
content: Case; Manometry
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, aluminum (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (manometer material)
label: Physical Description
content: mercury (manometer material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (manometer material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 6 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 17.145 cm x 8.255 cm x 3.175 cm