Metabulator
name: label: maker
content: Sanborn Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Sanborn Metabulator was described as “a valuable diagnostic instrument used to determine whether a patient is burning up his food too rapidly or too slowly.” The form was on the market by the early 1950s.
label: Description
content: The Sanborn company, a medical instrument firm in the Boston area, was founded in 1917 by Frank Sanborn (1865-1958).
label: Description
content: Ref: “Massachusetts Sets the Pace. Precision Instruments Reveal the State’s Skills,” Boston Globe (Feb. 4, 1958), p. 17.
label: Description
content: “Frank Sanborn, Cambridge Inventor, Engineer, Author, 93,” Boston Globe (May 17, 1958), p. 16.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: New York, Larchmont
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Norma S. Turck and daughters Lenore and Dana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0205
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0205.01
label: accession number
content: 1981.0205
label: serial number
content: 4855
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Metabulator
label: Other Terms
content: Metabulator; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 47 cm x 27.8 cm x 37.2 cm; 18 1/2 in x 10 15/16 in x 14 21/32 in