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- OBJECT TYPE
- Cylinder
- DATE
- 1954
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2014.0035.003
- MANUFACTURER
- Z & W Machine Products Co.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 3
- Total Parts
- 4
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Aluminum body
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 6.6 cm
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- 2.3 cm
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Medical Technology
- Category
- Chemicals & medications
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Z&W
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
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Part of a collection of medical technologies donated to the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation by the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society. - Function
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To house gas filled cylinders on an anaesthetic mask - Technical
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In the early 1950s, Dr. Robert A. Hingson (1913-1996) became chairman of the Anesthesiology Department at Case Western Reserve University. Shortly thereafter he developed this field unit with engineers Frank Ziherl and Arthur Kish. Their objective was to create a safe, portable and simple device that could be used for resuscitation and administration of anesthetic gas mixtures with oxygen. They developed a nonexplosive gas mixture of 40% cyclopropane (the anesthetic), 30% helium and 30% oxygen, and packaged six litres of it into two miniature gas cylinders, each less than 3 inches long. The small gas cylinders and carbon dioxide (CO2) absorber made the device light and easy to carry. (ref.1) “It consists of the following parts: (1) a conductive rubber face mask; (2) a central axial body of spark-proof aluminum with a compression spring valve that may be opened and closed with a slight pressure, which opens the ports within the mask by sliding movement, permitting the exchange of respiratory gases within the unit; (3) a conductive breathing bag; (4) two right-arm aluminum containers to house the gas-filled cylinders; (5) gas cylinders; and (6) a soda lime canister. The aluminum containers attach with proximal threats to the small central axial body, which has a specially designed perforating and sealing sliding mechanism for perforating the oxygen and anesthetic cylinders. One of these side-arm containers has an orange band of colour to identify the anesthetic port, and the other side-arm container has a green band of color to designate the oxygen port.” (ref.2) - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- None
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- Dull aluminum body with an orange stripe around the circumference
- Decoration
- N/A
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Z & W Machine Products Co., Container, circa 1954, Artifact no. 2014.0035, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2014.0035.003/
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