Cardioscope
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- OBJECT TYPE
- cardiac
- DATE
- 1948–1958
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2002.0944.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Pilling
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
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General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 3
- AKA
- light (.1)
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Brass-colour metal instrument; closed end sealed with clear glass lens.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 22.5 cm
- Width
- 4.4 cm
- Height
- 2.5 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
- Pilling
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Possibly used c.1948- 1958.
- 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
-
This component used to illuminate cardiac surgical field. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- "PILLING" stamped into cylindrical contact (?) extending from open end of instrument. UHN catalogue no. "994.1.32" printed by hand in black ink on flared rim of shaft, above contact.
- Missing
- Appears complete.
- Finish
- Brass-colour metal instrument; closed end sealed with clear glass lens.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Pilling, Cardioscope, circa 1948–1958, Artifact no. 2002.0944, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2002.0944.001/
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