Biosonar 200
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1960s
name: label: maker
content: Sonomedic
notes: label: Description
content: Benson Carlin (1916-1996) was an electrical engineer whose work on high-frequency sound imaging contributed to the development of medical imaging equipment. He and Manfred Clynes (1925-2020), a physicist and musician, introduced the Biosonar 200 at the American Acoustical Society meeting in May 1963, explaining that the device “makes it possible to study the movement of various body parts” and determine “changes in size and displacement of structures that might portend injury or disease.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Pulses of Sound Used to Probe Body for Structural Troubles,” New York Times (May 18, 1963), p. 16.
label: Description
content: “Benson Carlin, 80, Inventor of Devices Using Ultrasonics,” New York Times (July 1, 1996), p. B10.
label: Description
content: Benson Carlin, Ultrasonics (1949; 1960).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: location of prior holder
content: United States: New Jersey
label: location of prior holder
content: United States: New Jersey, Lawrenceville
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Benson Carlin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.1027.01.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.1027
label: catalog number
content: 1984.1027.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pulse Echo Brain Scanner
label: Other Terms
content: Pulse Echo Brain Scanner; Brain Scanner, Pulse Echo; Medicine; Imaging, Ultrasound
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 1/4 in x 15 in x 24 1/4 in; 38.735 cm x 38.1 cm x 61.595 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 41 cm x 37.2 cm x 59 cm; 16 5/32 in x 14 21/32 in x 23 7/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 41 cm x 37.2 cm x 59 cm; 16 5/32 in x 14 21/32 in x 23 7/32 in