Pacemaker
date: label: date made
content: about 1973
notes: label: Description
content: Ned Rasor (1927-2020) was an engineering physicist with a PhD from Case Western Reserve University. J. William Spickler was a physiologist and electrical engineer. Working together, and with the support of the Cox Heart Institute in Dayton, Ohio, the two men developed the first intracardiac pacemaker ever implanted. Rasor gave this example to the Smithsonian in 1976.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Tiny Nuclear Pacemaker For the Heart Developed,” New York Times (Dec. 1, 1970), p. 24.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ned S. Rasor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.322717
label: catalog number
content: 322717.01
label: accession number
content: 322717
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pacemaker
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: model
label: Object Name
content: pacemaker and model of a heart
label: Object Name
content: pacemaker, atomic
label: Object Name
content: pacemaker, intracardiac, atomic
label: Other Terms
content: Pacemaker; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 4 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 11.43 cm x 8.89 cm