Stethoscope
notes: label: Description
content: Rapport-Sprague Acoustic Stethoscope, Model 280, made by Sanborn Co. in Waltham, Mass.
label: Description
content: The Sanborn Company was established in 1917 by Frank B. Sanborn (1863-1958), a retired pro-fessor of civil engineering at Tufts University. The firm entered the medical field, with an electrocardiograph, in 1924; and the electronics field in 1935. It was acquired by (and became a subsidiary of) HP in 1961.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Cambridge Inventor has a Big Heart,” <i>Boston Globe</i> (May 17, 1958), p. 16.
label: Description
content: “Electrocardiograph Company Has a Big Heart,” <i>Boston Globe</i> (May 24, 1959), p. A20.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sanborn Company. Medical and Industrial Divisions
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07818
label: catalog number
content: M-07818
label: accession number
content: 223385
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Kit, Stethoscope
label: Object Name
content: stethoscope, set
label: Other Terms
content: Kit, Stethoscope; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: stethoscope: 19 in x 5 in x 1 1/8 in; 48.26 cm x 12.7 cm x 2.8575 cm
label: Measurements
content: box: 1 1/2 in x 11 3/4 in x 4 3/4 in; 3.81 cm x 29.845 cm x 12.065 cm