Electrocardiograph
date: label: Date made
content: 1971 - 1972
notes: label: Description
content: In 1961, the Sanborn Company, a major manufacturer of electrocardiographs, was acquired by (and became a subsidiary of) the Hewlett-Packard, an information technology firm headquartered in Palo Alto, Ca. This electrocardiograph, a Model No. 1515A made by the Hewlett Packard Medical Electronics Division in the early 1970s, accepts the ECG directly from the patient, makes a graphic recording on three simultaneous channels, and transmits the ECG along with a patient I.D. number over telephone lines to a computer system in a remote location. It was used by NASA.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From NASA through Walter B Sullivan Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0018.01
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0018.01
label: accession number
content: 1996.0018
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrocardiograph
label: Object Name
content: phone terminal, HP1515A ECG
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: beige (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: gray (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 100 cm x 54.2 cm x 66.5 cm; 39 3/8 in x 21 5/16 in x 26 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 1/2 in x 21 in x 40 in; 67.31 cm x 53.34 cm x 101.6 cm