Pacemaker
date: label: Date made
content: About 1951
label: date made
content: 1959
name: label: developer
content: Tischler, M.
label: maker
content: Bendix Radio
notes: label: Description
content: Morris Tischler (1922-2012), an engineer affiliated with the Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, devised a portable, transistorized intermittent heart stimulator, and asked Bendix to help develop the form. One Bendix example went to Tischler. The other went to Alfred Henderson (1920-2019), a physician then affiliated with the Thoracic Surgical Services at St. Barnabas Hospital, in Newark, N. J.; and Dr. Henderson gave his example to the Smithsonian in 1965. The inscriptions read, in part, “BENDIX HEART PACER” and “MANUFACTURED BY BENDIX RADIO / DIVISION OF BENDIX AVIATION CORP.” Tischler later established Electronic Aids, Inc., manufactured cardiac pacemakers, and gave one to President Eisenhower.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Medical Engineer Wins a Patent For Device That Restarts Hearts,” New York Times (Nov. 9, 1963), p. 30, 37.
label: Description
content: “Morris Tischler, who invented an early transistorized pacemaker, dies,” The Baltimore Sun (March 20, 2012).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Alfred R. Henderson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11172
label: catalog number
content: M-11172
label: accession number
content: 259275
label: serial number
content: 1004
label: model number
content: 10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pacemaker
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: pacemaker
label: Other Terms
content: Pacemaker; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, extended: 3 1/2 in x 3 5/8 in x 35 in; 8.89 cm x 9.2075 cm x 88.9 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 cm x 9.2 cm x 9.2 cm; 7 7/8 in x 3 5/8 in x 3 5/8 in