Electrocardiograph
name: label: maker
content: Sanborn Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Sanborn Co. was established in Cambridge, Ma., in 1917. In 1935, the firm purchased the rights to a portable electrocardiograph developed by John Pattee and Hubert Mann, of New York City. This example of that instrument came from George E. Burch, Jr., a professor of cardiology at Tulane University Medical School. It was made before the firm’s move to Waltham in 1959. An inscription reads "Sanborn Viso-Cardiette / Sanborn Company / Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A."
label: Description
content: Ref: “Electrocardiograph Company Has a Big Heart,” <i>Boston Globe</i> (May 24, 1959), p. A20.
label: Description
content: George E. Burch and Nicholas P. DePasquale, <i>A History of Electrocardiography</i> (San Francisco, 1990), p. 53. Originally published in Chicago, 1964.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Waltham
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donation of George E. Burch, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0186.079
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0186.079
label: accession number
content: 1980.0186
label: collector/donor number
content: 160
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electrocardiograph machine
label: Object Name
content: electrocardiograph
label: Object Name
content: Electrocardiograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 38 cm x 21.5 cm x 28.5 cm; 14 31/32 in x 8 15/32 in x 11 7/32 in