Sphygmomanometer
name: label: maker
content: Sanborn Company
notes: label: Description
content: Sphygmomanometer with “SANBORN / BLOOD / PRESSURE” and “MILLIMETERS / OF / MERCURY” on the dial. Frank B. Sanborn (1863-1958), a retired professor of civil engineering at Tufts University, established the Sanborn Company in 1917.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad for the Sanborn Blood Pressure Outfit, in <i>The Modern Hospital Year Book</i> (1919): 618.
label: Description
content: “Cambridge Inventor has a Big Heart,” <i>Boston Globe</i> (May 17, 1958), p. 16.
label: Description
content: “Electrocardiograph Company Has a Big Heart,” <i>Boston Globe</i> (May 24, 1959), p. A20.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 2000.0277.10
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0277.10
label: accession number
content: 2000.0277
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sphygmomanometer
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 11 in x 2 1/4 in; 3.81 cm x 27.94 cm x 5.715 cm