Fourth Model of the “Both” Electrocardiograph (1936-39)

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Home Coming meetings Past meetings About the Society Galleries of the Virtual Museum Main Galleries Medicine Surgery Anaesthesia X-rays Hospitals,other organisations Individuals of note Small Galleries Dentistry Nursing Ethnic medicine - Aboriginal - Chinese - Mediterran	Fourth Model of the “Both” Electrocardiograph (1936-39) The Both Company was formed in 1932 with the help of Physics Professor Kerr-Grant. The factory was established next door to the Physics Department in two rooms of the Old Police Barracks and its aim was to design and produce medical equipment. Up to that time heart recordings were produced photographically needing processing that took time. “Both” electrocardiograph case Owner: SAMHS inc. Produced by: The Both Instrument Company. Structure: Wooden box, ECG Machine, smoked glass disc, microscope. Size: 15 inches. Weight: 25 lbs. . The Both machine could produce real time recordings at the patient’s bedside. It used a diamond stylus recording on a smoked glass disc. The tracings were minute, about 1/50th. of a normal ECG and were viewed using a 50x microscope. A patient’s record was about half an inch long, and the disc could record several patient’s ECGs. Later models could produce the now customary strip recordings. “BOTH” electrocardiograph showing recording disc & controls Electrocardiograph with the microscope vertical for viewing the disc A later “Both” electrocardiograph “style-writer” using a heated stylus to record on a paper roll, producing an instantaneous tracing without photography -o0o-

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Past meetings
About the Society

Galleries of the Virtual Museum

Main Galleries

Medicine
Surgery
Anaesthesia
X-rays
Hospitals,other organisations
Individuals of note

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Nursing

Ethnic medicine
     - Aboriginal
     - Chinese
     - Mediterran

Fourth Model of the “Both” Electrocardiograph (1936-39)

The Both Company was formed in 1932 with the help of Physics Professor Kerr-Grant. The factory was established next door to the Physics Department in two rooms of the Old Police Barracks and its aim was to design and produce medical equipment. Up to that time heart recordings were produced photographically needing processing that took time.

“Both” electrocardiograph case

           Owner:   SAMHS inc.
Produced by:   The Both Instrument Company.
      Structure:    Wooden box, ECG Machine, smoked glass disc, microscope.
              Size:   15 inches.
          Weight:   25 lbs.

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The Both machine could produce real time recordings at the patient’s bedside. It used a diamond stylus recording on a smoked glass disc.

The tracings were minute, about 1/50th. of a normal ECG and were viewed using a 50x microscope.

A patient’s record was about half an inch long, and the disc could record several patient’s ECGs. Later models could produce the now customary strip recordings.

“BOTH” electrocardiograph
showing recording disc & controls

Electrocardiograph with the microscope vertical for viewing the disc

A later “Both” electrocardiograph “style-writer” using a heated stylus to record on a paper roll, producing an instantaneous tracing without photography

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