Sphygmomanometer
name: label: maker
content: Taylor Instrument Co.
notes: label: Description
content: A label on the cardboard box reads “DR. ROGERS’ / Tycos / Sphygmomanometer.” Oscar H. Rogers (1848-1941) was a physician who served as chief medical director of the New York Life Insurance Co.
label: Description
content: Ref: Oscar H. Rogers and Harold C. Macdonald, “Sphygmomanometer,” U.S. Patent 1,063,287 (June 14, 1913).
label: Description
content: "Dr. Oscar H. Rogers / Former Medical Director, New York Life Insurance Co., 83," New York Times (May 18, 1941), p. 43.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Smith H. Oliver
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06904
label: catalog number
content: M-06904
label: accession number
content: 212052
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sphygmomanometer
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 6 in x 4 in; 8.255 cm x 15.24 cm x 10.16 cm