Object Details
- Warren E. Collins, Inc.
- Description
- Philip Drinker (1894-1972) was an industrial hygienist at the Harvard Medical School. Louis Agassiz Shaw, Jr. (1886-1940) was a physiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health. Working together in the late 1920s, the two men devised a respirator for polio patients that, by 1930, was known as an iron lung. Drinker and Shaw received the John Scott Medal for this work in 1931. An inscription on this example reads "DRINKERS RESPIRATORS / PATENTS PENDING / Made By / WARREN E. COLLINS INC. / Specialist in Metabolism Apparatus / 555 HUNTINGTON AVE., BOSTON, MASS. / NO. 3."
- Ref: L. A. Shaw and P. Drinker, (1929), "An Apparatus for the Prolonged Administration of Artificial Respiration: I. A Design for Adults and Children," Journal of Clinical Investigation 7 (1929): 229–247.
- Philip Drinker and Charles F. McKhann, “The Use of a New Apparatus for the Prolonged Administration of Artificial Respiration: I. A Fatal Case of Poliomyelitis,” (1929).
- “Two Harvard Men Devised Respirator,” Boston Globe (Aug. 15, 1931), p. 11.
- Joseph Rossman, “Drinker Patents Held Invalid,” Science 82 (1935): 221-222.
- “Louis A. Shaw, 54; Respirator Expert,” New York Times (Aug. 28, 1940), p. 19.
- “Prof. Philip Drinker Dies at 77; A Co-Inventor of the Iron Lung,” New York Times (Oct. 21, 1972), p. 36.
- “Warren E. Collins Funeral Tomorrow, Scientific Appliance Maker Developed Oxygen Tent,” Boston Globe (Nov. 28, 1935), p. 21.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 1989.0398.01.01
- catalog number
- 1989.0398.01
- accession number
- 1989.0398
- Object Name
- iron lung
- respirator
- Other Terms
- Iron Lung; Respirator
- Physical Description
- metal, steel (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- foam rubber (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- silver (overall color)
- gray (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- orange (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 154.5 cm x 82 cm x 201 cm; 60 13/16 in x 32 5/16 in x 79 1/8 in
- overall: 70 in x 43 in x 86 in; 177.8 cm x 109.22 cm x 218.44 cm
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Boston
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Antibody Initiative: Polio
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1057546
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-09a1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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