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Artificial heart In chest, 1959-1964

 Item — Reel: 63

Scope and Contents

1 Tricuspid valve in mock circulation. Ordinary movie with high-speed factors.

2 Electromotor driven, pendulum type heart in mock circulation.

3 Dog on table with chest closed and solenoid driven heart inside. Its own heart shows mitral valve inside. Cineangiocardiograms of same (Sones, 1959).

4 Seidel and Moulopoulos on NASA time scope.

5 Forty-eight potentiometers. Also, quiet pumping and turbulent pumping.

6 Dog on table waking up from anesthesia, 1961.

7 Tricuspid mitral valves made of Teflon patches in the ventricles.

Atrioventricular window patch.

8 Manufacturing of Silastic heart. Cerrotru mold with the ball valves inside are being layered. Finished product (right ventricle).

9 Calf being given water and in suspension.

10 Heart with anti-suction bellows added. 11 minutes.

Dates

  • 1959-1964

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

Repository Details

Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository

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