Vital Capacity Apparatus
date: label: date made
content: ca 1934
name: label: maker
content: McKesson Appliance Company
notes: label: Description
content: One inscription reads in part “MCKESSON / VITAL CAPACITY APPARATUS” and “MANUFACTURED BY MCKESSON APPLIANCE CO., TOLEDO, OHIO, U.S.A.” Another reads in part “June 1934, 1,420,000 / PRINTED IN U.S.A.” Elmer Isaac McKesson (1881-1935) was a physician in Toledo, Ohio, who became interested in anesthesia in 1906. In 1910, he perfected the first intermittent flow nitrous oxide and oxygen anesthesia machine and organized the Toledo Technical Appliance Co.; this later became the McKesson Appliance Co.).
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dr. E. M’Kesson Dies; Specialist On Anesthesia,” New York Herald Tribune (Feb. 23, 1935), p. 8.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Ohio, Toledo
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Miles Davis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0214.02
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0214.02
label: accession number
content: 2010.0214
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vital capacity apparatus
label: Object Name
content: apparatus, vital capacity
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (part: material)
label: Physical Description
content: foam (part: material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 11 in x 1/4 in; 21.59 cm x 27.94 cm x .635 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 10 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 26.67 cm x 26.035 cm x 4.445 cm
label: Measurements
content: apparatus: 1 3/4 in x 10 1/2 in x 11 1/4 in; 4.445 cm x 26.67 cm x 28.575 cm
label: Measurements
content: book of charts: 1/4 in x 11 in x 8 1/2 in; .635 cm x 27.94 cm x 21.59 cm