Found on a DotMed listing.
Category Archives: Exercise
Tissot, Exercise Testing
A Tissot spirometer (probably 125 liter) used for exercise testing. The subject is inhaling through a gas meter and exhaling into the Tissot spirometer while riding a Monark exercise bicycle. From a University of Texas of the Permian Basin college course synopsis on exercise physiology.
Exercise Testing, 1986
From a 1986 doctoral thesis on the Maximal Acceptable Weight of Lift by J.E. Fernandes
Spirometer, Mercury Electronics CS5, 1981
Exercise Testing, 1920
Exercise testing. From The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Advisory Council, Second Report of the Mine Rescue Apparatus Committee, Published by His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1920, page 58.
Lung Exerciser, 1901
Manufactured by the Spirometer Company. Found in Philharmonic: A Magazine Devoted to Music Art Drama, Volume 1, April 1901, page vi.
Sensormedics 2900 Metabolic Cart, 1980’s
From a Pemed listing. A mixing-chamber metabolic cart, probably from the late 1980’s.
Bicycle Ergometer, circa 1915
Found on the Steno Museum Collection website. Described as “a black stationary bike without wheels but instead mounted on four obliquely positioned legs, standing in a black iron frame on the floor.” It appears to be electromagnetically braked and is attributed to a design of August Krogh. Manufactured by the Copenhagen Electric Motor Factory between 1910 and 1920.