Manometer Frame
notes: label: Description
content: Frame for a manometer system devised by Carl J. Wiggers (1883-1963), an American physician famous for his heart and blood-pressure research. Dr. Wiggers received an M.D. from the University of Michigan, did further study at the University of Munich, and spent most of his career in the Department of Physiology at the Western Reserve University Medical School. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1951, he received the Modern Medicine Award in 1954, and the Albert Lasker Award for distinguished research in cardiovascular research in 1955.
label: Description
content: Ref: Carl J. Wiggers, Reminiscences and Adventures in Circulation Research (1958).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Division of Science, Medicine and Society: Medical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Robert S. Alexander
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0199.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0199
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0199.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Part, Manometer
label: Object Name
content: manometer frame
label: Object Name
content: manometer
label: Other Terms
content: Part, Manometer; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/2 in x 21 in x 26 1/2 in; 36.83 cm x 53.34 cm x 67.31 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: container: 33 1/2 in x 23 1/2 in x 6 3/4 in; 85.09 cm x 59.69 cm x 17.145 cm