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Boyle Anaesthetic Machine

Inventory Number 10475


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.10475

Item type
Object
Provenance
From the Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, John Radcliffe Hospital.
Physical material
Glass
Metal
String
Dimensions
Height: 240mm Width: 253mm Depth: 113mm Weight: 2050g
Inventory No
10475
Accession Number
1998-7

Description

Two bottle (clear colourless bottles with scales and logo printed on the exterior, one labelled "CHLOROFORM OR TRILENE", the other labelled "ETHER") Boyle with lever bypass controls to volatile agents, triple water sight flowmeter (contained in a clear, colourless glass bottle), safety fillers.

Agent : nitrous oxide & oxygen & ether & chloroform & carbon dioxide

Invented pre-1927 by Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle (1875-1941)

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