Object Details
- Description
- Electrocardiographs measure the small electrical currents generated by beating hearts. Willem Einthoven, a Dutch physiologist, invented an electrocardiograph—which he termed a string galvanometer—in 1901. The first electrocardiograph in the United States was the commercial model that Alfred E. Cohn (1879-1957), a young American cardiologist, acquired in London, installed at Mt. Sinai Hospital New York, and used to make these tracings in 1910-1911.
- Ref: “Alfred Cohn Dies; Cardiologist, 78,” New York Times (July 23, 1957), p. 25.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Measurements
- overall: 1 7/8 in x 11 5/8 in x 1/8 in; 4.7625 cm x 29.5275 cm x .3175 cm
- Object Name
- tracing, ekg
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