Electrocardiograph
name: label: maker
content: Victor X-Ray Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: In 1927, the Victor X-Ray Corporation of Chicago introduced an electrocardiograph that was portable and yet as sensitive as any other on the market. This example is of that sort. An inscription reads in part “JUL 12. 1921 / OTHER PATENTS PENDING.”
label: Description
content: General Electric merged with the Victor X-Ray Corporation in 1919, and Victor made x-ray tubes for GE. GE fully absorbed Victor ca. 1929, yielding a new firm that traded as the General Electric X-Ray Corp.
label: Description
content: Ref: General Electric X-Ray Corp., Bulletin 275.
label: Description
content: Ad for the Victor Electrocardiograph in The Military Surgeon 6 (1927): 13f.
label: Description
content: George E. Burch and Nicholas D. Pasquale, A History of Electrocardiography (San Francisco, 1990), p. 52.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0143.09
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0143.09
label: accession number
content: 1991.0143
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrocardiograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: wood, walnut (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 101 cm x 73 cm x 33 cm; 39 3/4 in x 28 3/4 in x 13 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 40 in x 13 in x 26 1/2 in; 101.6 cm x 33.02 cm x 67.31 cm