Cytoscope
Cytoscope
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- Description
- A tag on the wooden box holding this cystoscope reads “A.C.M.I. / TRADE MARK / REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.” Inscriptions inside the box read “WAPPLER ELECTRIC MFG. CO., NEW YORK, U.S.A.” and “A.C.M.I. / PATENTED / TRADE MARK.” Reinhold H. Wappler (1870-1933) was born in Germany and obtained a technical education in instrument making before moving to the United States in 1890. He began his own business, Wappler & Fayer, in New York, in 1897; this became Wappler Electric Mfg. Co. in 1910. He established the American Cytoscope Co. in 1903
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- cystoscopes
- Other Terms
- Diagnostic Medicine
- date made
- 1910-1917
- maker
- Wappler Electric Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- box: 2 1/2 in x 12 5/8 in x 4 1/4 in; 6.35 cm x 32.0675 cm x 10.795 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-06978
- catalog number
- M-06978
- accession number
- 214894
- Credit Line
- Dr. Shepard Jerome
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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