Electrocardiograph Tracing
notes: label: Description
content: Electrocardiographs measure the small electrical currents generated by beating hearts. Willem Einthoven, a Dutch physiologist, devised an electrocardiograph, which he termed a string galvanometer, in 1901. Alfred E. Cohn (1879-1957), a young American cardiologist, acquired an early commercial model in London a few years later, brought it to Mt. Sinai Hospital New York, and used to make these tracings in 1910-1911. This was the first electrocardiograph in the United States.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Alfred Cohn Dies; Cardiologist, 78,” New York Times (July 23, 1957), p. 25.
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: 2012.0165.170.01
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.170.01
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tracing, ekg
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 10 1/8 in; 7.62 cm x 25.7175 cm