Pacemaker, cardiac
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- OBJECT TYPE
- IMPLANTABLE/OBLONG
- DATE
- 1965–1970
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1985.0605.001
- MANUFACTURER
- National Research Council Canada
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- PROTOTYPE
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 3
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Circuits not visible on.1 &.2 under silicone coatings/.1 has small metal strip at one end/.2 has large metal plates coveringboth sides/.3 has strip of white cloth embedded in coating, circuits partially visible, electrode made of woven platinum wire.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 8.5 cm
- Width
- 4.5 cm
- Height
- 2.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Medical Technology
- Category
- Research
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- NRC
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Ottawa
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- late 1960s
- Canada
-
PART OF NRC PACEMAKER PROGRAMME. 1ST PACEMAKER DEV'T AT NRC IN 1950 BY JOHN HOPPS WAS APPROX. 30CM LONG AND SEVERAL CM HIGH AND WIDE. DEV'T OF TRANSISTORS & RELIABLE BATTERIES PERMITTED DESIGN OF PACEMAKER OF IMPLANTABLE SIZE (1957). PACEMAKER REGARDED AS ONE OF GREATEST CDN ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENTS OF 20TH CENTURY. (REF.2 - Function
-
USED IN EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMME TO DELIVER ELECTRICAL STIMULUS TO HEART, IN ORDER TO STIMULATE RHYMTHIC HEART BEAT. - Technical
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USED IN ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS OF BIOLOGICAL ENERGY SUPPLIES, IN WHICH METALS IN CONTACT WITH BODY FLUIDS ACTED AS ANATURAL BATTERY. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- .1: '9' printed by hand in pink-coloured silicone (?) on one side/ '20' printed by hand in white-coloured silicone (?) on one side.
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- Unknown
- Decoration
- N/A
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National Research Council Canada, Pacemaker, cardiac, between 1965–1970, Artifact no. 1985.0605, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1985.0605.001/
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