Object Details
- Wolf, Georg
- Description
- Rudolph Schindler (1888-1968) was a German-Jewish physician and gastroenterologist who invented a flexible gastroscope for viewing the interior of a stomach. This early example was made by Georg. Wolf, a medical instrument maker in Berlin, circa 1929. Dr. Schindler brought it with him when he moved to the United States in the 1930s.
- Ref: “Dr. Rudolph Schindler Dead at 80; Physician Invented Gastroscope,” New York Times (Sept. 9, 1968), p. 47.
- Audrey B. Davis, “Rudolph Schindler’s Role in the Development of Gastroscopy,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 46 (1972): 150-170.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Olav A. Blomquist, M.D.
- 1929
- ID Number
- MG.315417.01
- catalog number
- 315417.01
- accession number
- 315417
- Object Name
- Wolf-Schindler Flexible Gastroscop
- gastroscope
- Physical Description
- rubber (body material)
- metal (tip material)
- wood, oak (box material)
- Measurements
- gastroscope: 67 cm x 3.75 cm; 26 3/8 in x 1 1/2 in
- case for gastroscope: 82 cm x 10 cm x 6.5 cm; 32 9/32 in x 3 15/16 in x 2 9/16 in
- place made
- Germany: Berlin, Berlin
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- National Museum of American History
- associated subject
- Endoscopy
- Record ID
- nmah_1004581
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-a446-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
