Stethoscope
notes: label: Description
content: George Philip Cammann (1804-1863), a New York City physician who had studied in Paris, came up with the idea of a binaural stethoscope. The first example, unveiled in 1852, was made by George Tiemann (1795-1868), a German immigrant with a surgical instrument shop in New York.
label: Description
content: This stethoscope, which is of that sort, belonged to Joseph Meredith Toner (1925-1896), a Washington physician, historian, and bibliophile. It was deposited at the Library of Congress in 1896, and transferrerd to the Smithsonian in 1961.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Library of Congress
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09701
label: catalog number
content: M-09701
label: accession number
content: 235052
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stethoscope
label: Object Name
content: stethoscope, binaural
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 3 3/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 9.525 cm x 8.5725 cm