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License"Matthews Portable Electrocardiograph"
Jamie Torrance for Science Museu
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
"Matthews Portable Electrocardiograph"
Jamie Torrance for Science Museu
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
"Matthews Portable Electrocardiograph"
Jamie Torrance for Science Museu
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
"Matthews Portable Electrocardiograph"
Jamie Torrance for Science Museu
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
"Matthews Portable Electrocardiograph"
Jamie Torrance for Science Museu
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
"Matthews Portable Electrocardiograph"
Jamie Torrance for Science Museu
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
"Matthews Portable Electrocardiograph"
Jamie Torrance for Science Museu
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
"Matthews Portable Electrocardiograph"
Jamie Torrance for Science Museu
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
"Matthews Portable Electrocardiograph"
Jamie Torrance for Science Museu
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
"Matthews Portable Electrocardiograph"
Jamie Torrance for Science Museu
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
"Matthews Portable Electrocardiograph"
Jamie Torrance for Science Museu
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
"Matthews Portable Electrocardiograph"
Jamie Torrance for Science Museu
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
"Matthews Portable Electrocardiograph"
Jamie Torrance for Science Museu
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
"Matthews Portable Electrocardiograph"
Jamie Torrance for Science Museu
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
"Matthews Portable Electrocardiograph"
Jamie Torrance for Science Museu
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
"Matthews Portable Electrocardiograph"
Jamie Torrance for Science Museu
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
"Matthews Portable Electrocardiograph", developed by Sir Bryan Matthews and Leonard Harrison Matthews (brothers), at the University of Cambridge and with Clifton Instruments Ltd, 1931-1933
Electrocardiographs detect heart rhythms by measuring electrical activity. After finding a need for a portable electrocardiograph, Sir Bryan Matthews, physiologist and his older brother Leonard Harrison Matthews, a zoologist, developed this device. Within the machine is Bryan Matthews’ oscilloscope – a mechanical device used to measure electrical activity and voltage. Together they founded Clifton Instruments Ltd to make the electrocardiograph and oscillograph as well as others of their own design.
Originally, a pen connected to the device on moving paper recorded the electrical activity of a heart. However, these types of electrocardiographs were of limited use when examining the precise changes during heartbeats. Although never a huge commercial success, the Matthews portable electrocardiograph was used in scientific research.
Details
- Category:
- Clinical Diagnosis
- Object Number:
- 2022-1504
- Materials:
- wood, metal and electronic components
- Measurements:
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overall: 500 mm x 700 mm x 200 mm,
- type:
- electrocardiograph
