Artificial heart inside the chest, 1958-61
Item — Reel: 59
Scope and Contents
1 Valve in testing machine. Color regular film, then high speed film (1400 fps).
2 Norton heart in hand and in dog. Dog on image amplifier.
3 Pendulum heart in mock circulation. Blood is poured into the mock circulation to show its course.
4 Bellofram heart in mock circulation showing the two different hearts, right and left; the level in the venous reservoir stays constant with considerable flow.
5 Thrombosis on atrioventricular patches. The first is Teflon and the second is silastic, with thrombi growing along the legs and one thrombus under the patch.
6 NASA control tower with Wolfgang Seidel, Spyridon Moulopoulos, Sanborn recording equipment to left. The excursion of the pistons is shown on the scope.
7 Forty-eight potentiometers to define the shape of the electrical function of the NASA equipment. Recording of electrical function, resulting ventricular pressure, and blood flow as measured with a thermistor in the mock circulation.
Result of gentle ventricular pressure on the top of the aorta showing gentle flow and abrupt ventricular pressure showing abrupt flow, followed by another set of recordings with changes of electrical function and simultaneous changes in ventricular pressure due to a steep curve. The Akutsu heart pulsed gently, then pulsed abruptly so that it jumps on the table, then gently.
8 Norton air driven heart. Reciprocating air pump pumping the two ventricles with anti-suction bellows where the inlet and outlet to one ventricle are occluded by hand. The anti-suction bellows, or ballon, collapses during diastole.
9 Dog on the operating table five hours after insertion of a Bellofram heart inside the chest. Next, the dog on a platform eight hours after insertion. Next, the same dog ten hours after insertion.
2 Norton heart in hand and in dog. Dog on image amplifier.
3 Pendulum heart in mock circulation. Blood is poured into the mock circulation to show its course.
4 Bellofram heart in mock circulation showing the two different hearts, right and left; the level in the venous reservoir stays constant with considerable flow.
5 Thrombosis on atrioventricular patches. The first is Teflon and the second is silastic, with thrombi growing along the legs and one thrombus under the patch.
6 NASA control tower with Wolfgang Seidel, Spyridon Moulopoulos, Sanborn recording equipment to left. The excursion of the pistons is shown on the scope.
7 Forty-eight potentiometers to define the shape of the electrical function of the NASA equipment. Recording of electrical function, resulting ventricular pressure, and blood flow as measured with a thermistor in the mock circulation.
Result of gentle ventricular pressure on the top of the aorta showing gentle flow and abrupt ventricular pressure showing abrupt flow, followed by another set of recordings with changes of electrical function and simultaneous changes in ventricular pressure due to a steep curve. The Akutsu heart pulsed gently, then pulsed abruptly so that it jumps on the table, then gently.
8 Norton air driven heart. Reciprocating air pump pumping the two ventricles with anti-suction bellows where the inlet and outlet to one ventricle are occluded by hand. The anti-suction bellows, or ballon, collapses during diastole.
9 Dog on the operating table five hours after insertion of a Bellofram heart inside the chest. Next, the dog on a platform eight hours after insertion. Next, the same dog ten hours after insertion.
Dates
- 1958-61
Conditions Governing Access
Materials must be used on-site; no use of original material, access copies will be made available for viewing. Five business days advanced notice required. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law, condition of the material, or by donor.
Extent
From the Collection: 200 16mm film
From the Collection: 8 8mm film
From the Collection: 10 U-matic
From the Collection: 2 Betacam
From the Collection: 18 VHS
From the Collection: 11 Audiocassette
From the Collection: 4 reel-to-reel audiotapes
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: Dutch; Flemish
From the Collection: Japanese
Physical Description
genreform: 16mm film
Physical Facet
Silent, black and white and color
Creator
- From the Collection: Kolff, Willem J. (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository
Contact:
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Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
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295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu