From Rainal Brothers, Leon & Jules, Medical Equipment Catalog, published 1905, page 380. http://cnum.cnam.fr/DET/M9939.html
Category Archives: 1900s
Spirometer, Verdin’s, 1901
From: Price List of Physiological Apparatus, Stains, Reagents, and Chemicals: Specially Used in Physiological Laboratories, Manufactured and Sold by Baird & Tatlock, 1901, page 32. The Verdin spirometer was likely a design based based on a rotary Roots impeller gas meter.
Spirometer, Caille Lung and Grip tester, circa 1900
Spirometer, Submarine Lung Tester, circa 1900
The point of this machine is to test your lungs. What you do is put a penny in, Grab the hose and blow until you’ve either passed out or raised all the divers. The divers raise one at a time. Collectors of Penny Arcade machines are not certain this was ever made since no existing examples have ever been found. From: http://www.arcadetreasures.com/arcade/Submarine_Lung_Tester.html
Spirometer, Arcade, Mills Brothers, circa 1905
Illustration from a Novelty Supply Catalog from around 1905. None are known to still exist. From: http://www.pinrepair.com/arcade/wblow.htm
Spirometer, Arcade, Mills Brothers, circa 1905
Illustration from a novelty catalog from about 1905. No known examples exist today. From: http://www.pinrepair.com/arcade/hatblow.htm
Spirometer, Arcade, Caillie’s, circa 1900
Caillie’s Hygienic Tester. From http://io9.com/forgotten-arcade-games-let-you-shoot-space-men-and-catc-513560652
Spirometer, Arcade, 1905
Lung tester manufactured by the Mills Novelty Company about 1905. The grip in the middle was a hand strength tester. From http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10963
Gad’s Aeroplethysmograph, 1909
From A Text Book of Physiology by Isaac Ott, published by F.A. Davis Co., 1909, page 356.
Spirometry, 1904
Bernhard Drager (center). Johann Heinrich Drager (right)
From: http://www.students.informatik.uni-luebeck.de/zhb/ediss502.pdf