Resuscitator
notes: label: Description
content: Joseph Kreiselman (1895-1968) was a physician and anesthesiologist who invented several resuscitators. An inscription on this example reads “KREISELMAN / RESUSCITATOR MODEL 110 / MADE BY / THE OHIO CHEMICAL & MFG. CO. / CLEVELAND, OHIO. / PAT. APPD. FOR. MADE IN U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Max Ming-Kwai Zung (1922-2008), the donor of this device, was an anesthesiologist who studied at Columbia University and worked in Washington, D.C.
label: Description
content: Ref: Robert B. Swope and Joseph Kreiselman, “Resuscitation and Artificial Respiration Apparatus,” U.S. Patent 1,848,232 (March 8, 1932).
label: Description
content: Joseph Kreiselman, “Resuscitator,” U.S. Patent 2,399,643 (May 7, 1946).
label: Description
content: “Joseph Kreiselman, Physician, 73, Dead,” New York Times (Oct. 23, 1968), p. 47.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0209.04
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0209.04
label: accession number
content: 1983.0209
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bellows resusitator
label: Object Name
content: resuscitator, bellows
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cloth (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fiber-wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: vulcanite (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, kit: 7 1/2 in x 6 7/8 in x 7 1/4 in; 19.05 cm x 17.4625 cm x 18.415 cm
label: Measurements
content: exhaust valve: 8.8 cm; 3 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: kit: 17 cm x 17 cm x 15.2 cm; 6 11/16 in x 6 11/16 in x 6 in
label: Measurements
content: bellows: 15.5 cm; x 6 1/8 in