Peirce Lung Machine
date: label: Date made
content: 1960
name: label: maker
content: E. Converse Peirce II
notes: label: Description
content: Lung machine developed by Edmund Converse Peirce II (1917-2003), a graduate of the Harvard Medical School who taught at the Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, Emory University in Atlanta, and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
label: Description
content: Ref: E. Converse Peirce II, “A Comparison of the Lande-Edwards, the Peirce, and the General-Electric Peirce Membrane Lungs,” Transactions, American Society for Artificial Internal Organs 16 (1970): 358-364.
label: Description
content: “SURGEON REPORTS A PORTABLE LUNG,” New York Times (Sept. 10, 1971), p. 17.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Georgia, Atlanta, Emory University
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Edwards Lifesciences, LLC
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0151.07
label: accession number
content: 2002.0151
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0151.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lung
label: Object Name
content: lung machine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 35 cm x 72.5 cm x 31 cm; 13 3/4 in x 28 9/16 in x 12 3/16 in