Respiratory Slide Rule
date: label: date made
content: 1972 - ca 1980
label: copyright date
content: 1972
label: copyright date
content: 1967
name: label: designer
content: Severinghaus, John W.
notes: label: Description
content: Plastic slide rule with inscriptions that read “HENDERSON-HASSELBACH EQUATION” and “RADIOMETER / COPENHAGEN” and “BLOOD GAS CALCULATOR” and “SCALE DESIGN: J. W. SEVERINGHAUS, M.D.” A label on the case reads “J. W. Severinghaus, M.D.” John W. Severinghaus (1922-2021) was the physician who invented modern blood-gas analysis.
label: Description
content: Ref: Philip E. Bickler, Thomas Hornbein, Lawrence J. Seidman, “John W. Severinghaus, M.D., 1922-2021,” Anesthesiology 135 (Oct. 2021): 555-557.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John W. Servinghaus
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0218.07
label: accession number
content: 1982.0218
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0218.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Slide Rule
label: Object Name
content: slide rule
label: Object Name
content: blood gas calculator
label: Other Terms
content: Slide Rule; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 11 3/8 in x 3 3/8 in; .635 cm x 28.8925 cm x 8.5725 cm