Anesthesia Machine
notes: label: Description
content: Connell Anesthetometer, No. 206, Mfd. By Beard Machine Co. This machine, which measured and mixed anesthetic vapors and gases, was developed by Karl Connell (1878-1941), a surgeon then working in New York, and was known by 1915. Connell received the Army Distinguished Service Medal for his work testing gas masks for the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dr. Karl Connell is Dead; Headed Omaha Hospital,” New York Herald Tribune (Oct. 19, 1941), p. 42.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Karl Connell Dies; Perfected Gas Mask,” Washington Post (Oct. 19, 1941), p. 17.
label: Description
content: Karl Connell, Jr., Biography of an Inventor (2008).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07382
label: catalog number
content: M-7382
label: accession number
content: 216288
objectType: label: Object Name
content: machine, anesthesia
label: Object Name
content: anesthesia machine