Hot wire anemometer? Photo is courtesy of Jim Sullivan, Supervisor, Pulmonary Diagnostic Laboratories at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
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Peak Flow Meter, Monaghan Model M401, circa 1970’s
Hot wire anemometer? Photo is courtesy of Jim Sullivan, Supervisor, Pulmonary Diagnostic Laboratories at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Spirometry, 1892
From: Manual for Physical Measurements in Connection with the Association Gymnasium Records, by Luther Halsey Gulick, published by International committee of Young men’s Christian associations, 1892, page 39.
“After inflating the lungs to their utmost capacity, blow slowly into the spirometer. Three trials may be allowed. Record the greatest one.”
Infant Respiration Apparatus, 1914
From: Studies in the respiratory exchange of infants, by Frances Gano Benedict and Fritz B. Talbot, The American Journal of Diseases of Children, Vol 8, July, 1914, page 25.
Spirometer, Air Shields Pulmonary Function Recorder, 1969
From the Spokane Daily Chronicle, November 11, 1969, page 3.
Spirometer, McKesson Vitalor, 1960
From http://dgrespiratory.com/other. The McKesson Vitalor was a dry wedge bellows spirometer. A pen attached to the top of the bellows marked on a small sheet of graph paper that was attached to an electric motor-driven platen (the curved silver plate). The mouthpiece was permanently attached to the front of the spirometer. A reviewer later noted that it was difficult to clean sputum out of the spirometer.
Spirometer, McKesson Vitalor, 1965
From: US Naval Air Development Center, Document NADC-MR-6516, “Post-flight chest discomfort in aviators: aero-atelectasis”, by Elihu York, page 3, 12/30/1965. The McKesson Vitalor was a dry wedge bellows spirometer. A pen attached to the top of the bellows marked on a small sheet of graph paper that was attached to an electric motor-driven platen. In this picture the subject is exhaling directly into the mouthpiece that was permanently attached to the front of the spirometer.
Spirometer, McKesson Vitalor, 1961
From: JAMA, 1961 Sep 23. Volume 177, page 865. A dry wedge bellows spirometer. A pen attached to the lid of the bellows wrote on a small sheet of graph paper that was driven horizontally by an electric motor during exhalation.
Spirometer, Spirometrics Flowmate Plus 2500
From a Dotmed Listing. Pneumotach based. Probably manufactured in the 1980’s.
Spirometer, Creative Biomedics DX Portable Plus with incentive LED cake
From a Creative Biomedics sales brochure. Many PC-based spirometry systems have a birthday cake with candles displayed on the screen as an incentive during spirometry. This spirometer came with its own birthday cake!