Tightener, wire

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OBJECT TYPE: orthopedic/Harris
DATE: 1938
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2002.0662.001

MANUFACTURER: Down Bros.
MODEL: Unknown
LOCATION: England

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General Information

Serial #: prototype
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: iron

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 28.4 cm
Width: 9.5 cm
Height: 1.7 cm
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Medical Technology
Category: Instruments
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Down
Country: England
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
Period: Designed and manufactured c. 1938.
Canada: Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON.
Function: To secure surgical wire around grafted bone.
Technical: Original prototype, designed by Dr. R.I. Harris and manufactured in Toronto. Wire to be tightened was jammed into the V-shaped notches at the ends of the instrument. Difficulty encountered was keeping the instrument jaws from slipping on the wire. This model was abandoned. [Ref. 4]
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: None, save UHN catalogue number "995.1.1" printed by hand in white ink on instrument.
Missing: None.
Finish: iron.
Decoration: N/A

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Down Bros., Tightener, wire, circa 1938, Artifact no. 2002.0662, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2002.0662.001/

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