Found in ‘Results of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics : Sixty-fourth Volume Part One’, edited by M. v. Pfaundler and A. Schittenhelm, 1943, page 58, published 1944, in a chapter translated as “The Respiratory Physiological Effects of Different Body Positions”.
Category Archives: 1940s
Spirometer, Recklinghausen, 1942
Spirometer system, probably for measuring tidal volumes and minute ventilation, attributed to Nach V. Recklinghausen. From: Results of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics: Sixty-first Volume, M.v. Pfaundler, A. Schittenhelm editors, Published by Springer-Verlag, 1942, page 812.
Spirometer, Spengler, circa 1940
Found on Catawiki, a French antique auction website. Labeled as “Old spirometer, very rare as the scale indicates up to 4 litres while the most popular measure 7 litres. Origin: Paris, France. Period: 1940 The object is complete and working. No cracks or damage. Window size: diameter cm 18, Object size: ca. cm 12 x 20 cm h 27.”
Spirometry, 1949, Aesculap Spirometer
Found on Pinterest. Labeled elsewhere as “Vintage photo of Dr. Sixten Haroldson measures lung volume of a draftee”. Dated as 4/5/1949. Likely taken in Sweden. Spirometer is an Aesculap model that only measured vital capacity.
Spirometer, Collins Cow Metabolism, circa 1940
From an undated publicity photo, likely from around 1940.
Collins Metabolex, circa 1948
Undated publicity photo, probably from around 1948.
Gasometer with Kymograph detail, Collins, circa 1945
Undated publicity photo. Date is based on the style of the gasometer and kymograph but could be a decade either way.
Collins Tissot Gasometer, Diagram, 1948
From a Collins Gasometer Sales Brochure printed in 1948.
Collins Tissot Gasometer, Detail of Kymograph, 1948
From a Collins Gasometer sales brochure printed in 1948.
Tissot Gasometer, Collins, 1948
From a Collins Gasometer sales brochure dated 1948.