"Hindle" Electrocardiograph, Research Model
name: label: user
content: Charity Hospital
label: maker
content: Cambridge Instrument Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Inscriptions on this instrument read “Electrocardiograph / Cambridge Instrument Co. Inc. / No. B.M. 6649.” Dr. George E. Burch, the donor, termed it a “Research model Hindle EKG from Charity Hospital No. 0-23724.”
label: Description
content: Charles F. Hindle, a mechanic in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, made a string galvanometer suitable for electrocardiographic work in 1915, and established his own firm soon thereafter. In 1922, the Hindle Instrument Co. joined with the Cambridge Instrument Co. in New York, becoming the Cambridge Instrument Company of North America.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Charles F. Hindle, Inventor of a Cardiograph, Dies in Illinois at the Age of 71,” New York Times (Nov. 26, 1946), p. 28.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: Louisiana, New Orleans
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN83625X80
label: accession number
content: 1980.0186
label: collector/donor number
content: 146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electrocardiograph, double string