Defibrillator
date: label: date made
content: 1947
name: label: maker
content: Ohmite Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Claude Schaeffer Beck (1894-1971) was a pioneering cardiac surgeon who received a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University, spent most of his career at Case Western Reserve University, and became the first to successfully revive a patient by directly shocking the heart with a defibrillator. This defibrillator is one of three prototypes known to exist. An inscription reads “OHMITE / TRADE MARK / REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. / VITREOUS / ENAMELED / RHEOSTAT-POTENTIOMETER / PAT. NOS. RE-19607 – 2040278 / OTHER PATENTS PENDING / OHMITE MFG. CO. / CHICAGO, ILL. / MADE IN / UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.” The patent was issued to David T. Siegel (d. 1957), founder of the Ohmite Mfg. Co.
label: Description
content: Ref: J. A. Meyer, “Claude Beck and cardiac resuscitation,” Annals of Thoracic Surgery 45 (1988): 103-105.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Claude Beck, Heart Specialist,” New York Times (Oct. 15, 1971), p. 44.
label: Description
content: David T. Siegel, “Rheostat,” U.S. Patent 2,040,278 (May 12, 1936).
label: Description
content: “DAVID T. SIEGEL WILL DISPOSES OF 4 MILLIONS,” Chicago Tribune (Aug. 21, 1957), p. 22.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cleveland
topic: label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Surgery
label: Subject
content: Health Care
label: Subject
content: Medicine
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
label: Exhibition
content: Inventing In America
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Claude S. Beck
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-13112
label: catalog number
content: M-13112
label: accession number
content: 288697
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Rheostat-Potentiometer
label: Object Name
content: defibrillator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
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content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored: 13 in x 17 1/4 in x 12 1/2 in; 33.02 cm x 43.815 cm x 31.75 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30.5 cm x 29.4 cm x 30 cm; 12 in x 11 9/16 in x 11 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: paddles: 299 cm x 7.8 cm; x 117 23/32 in x 3 1/16 in