Pacemaker
date: label: date made
content: about 1977
name: label: maker
content: Edwards Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: Miles Lowell Edwards (1898-1982) was an electrical engineer in the Pacific Northwest who, in 1958, introduced himself to Albert Starr (b. 1926), a young cardiac surgeon at the University of Oregon. Edwards Laboratories was established in 1961 and soon manufacturing artificial mitral valves. The pacemaker program began in 1968. The term Prolith was introduced in 1976. The Prolith 21S Ventricular pacemaker was sent to FDA for premarket authorization in 1977. Edwards Pacemaker Systems, a division of American Hospital Supply Corp., sent this example to the Smithsonian in 1978. The inscription reads “PROLITH/TM 21S / VENTRICULAR . . . PACER / PROGRAMMABLE RANGE 80-102 / SERIAL 31598 / EDWARDS PACEMAKER SYSTEMS / IRVING, CALIFORNIA USA” and “SAMPLE ONLY.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Aircraft Engineer Now Designs Heart Valves,” Los Angeles Times (Oct. 20, 1962), p. 6.
label: Description
content: “Heartfelt Thanks from Recipients. Medical Duo’s Valve a Lifesaver,” Los Angeles Times (Jan. 28, 1981), p. C6.
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: 1978.0466.01
label: serial number
content: 31598
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0466.01
label: accession number
content: 1978.0466
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pacemaker
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: pacemaker
label: Other Terms
content: Pacemaker; Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 2 1/4 in x 3/4 in; 6.0325 cm x 5.715 cm x 1.905 cm