Gastroscope, Schindler
date: label: date made
content: ca 1929
name: label: inventor
content: Schindler, Rudolf
label: maker
content: Wolf, Georg
notes: label: Description
content: Rudolph Schindler (1888-1968) was a German physician who invented a flexible gastroscope for viewing the interior of a stomach. In the 1930s, when the Nazis came to power, Dr. Schindler (whose father was Jewish) moved to the United States. The “Georg. Wolf, G.m.b.H. / . . . / BERLIN N.W.U.” inscription in the lid of the wooden case of this gastroscope refers to a medical instrument maker who worked with Schindler.
label: Description
content: Ref: "Dr. Rudolph Schindler Dead at 80; Physician Invented Gastroscope,” New York Times (Sept. 9, 1968), p. 47.
label: Description
content: Audrey B. Davis, “Rudolph Schindler’s Role in the Development of Gastroscopy,” <i>Bulletin of the History of Medicine</i> 46 (1972): 150-170.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Berlin
topic: label: associated subject
content: Endoscopy
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Eder Instrument Co.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-13886
label: model number
content: 164
label: catalog number
content: M-13886
label: accession number
content: 299052
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gastroscope
label: Object Name
content: Endoscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 32 1/4 in x 4 1/4 in; 9.525 cm x 81.915 cm x 10.795 cm