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OBJECT TYPE: positive/print/colour
DATE: 1978
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2002.0498.001

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
MODEL: Unknown
LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: colour photograph

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 11.4 cm
Width: 8.6 cm
Height: N/A
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Medical Technology
Category: Archives
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Unknown
Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
City: Toronto

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
Period: Photograph taken in 1978.
Canada: Colour photograph of Dr. D.C. MacGregor and his team, Toronto General Hospital, 1978 with the longest surviving calf to receive a treated [prosthetic heart] valve with experimental coating on struts to prevent clot formation. (ref. 2) Team members are (from left to right) Kenneth Burley, head technician at Cardio. Surgery lab at Banting [Institute]; Dr. Gregory J. Wilson; Dr. David MacGregor, who conducted research on cardiac pacemakers 1973- 1983 (poss. 1985); he later moved to Florida; Robert M. Pilliar (PhD); and Richard Adams. A paper on this work was published in ASAIO in 1976. (Ref. 3)
Function: Depicts human and animal participants in cardiac research project conducted at Toronto General Hospital, 1978.
Technical: Unknown
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: "D.M." printed in black on photograph front; "994.1.1" printed by hand in pencil on photograph back.
Missing: None.
Finish: Colour photograph; heavy residual glue deposits on back.
Decoration: N/A

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Unknown Manufacturer, Photograph, 1978, Artifact no. 2002.0498, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingenium.ca/en/id/2002.0498.001/

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