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The Einthoven Foundation Cardiology Information Portal Historical pictures; Willem Einthoven on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture on December 11, 1925 The String Galvanometer and the Measurement of the Action Currents of the Heart; Einthoven's triangle; Bibliography in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History ...
Previous to the string galvanometer, scientists were using a machine called the capillary electrometer to measure the heart’s electrical activity, but this device was unable to produce results of a diagnostic level. [7] Willem Einthoven adapted the string galvanometer at Leiden University in the early 20th century, publishing the first ...
Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven developed the string galvanometer in the early 20th century, publishing the first registration of its use to record an electrocardiogram in a Festschrift book in 1902. The first human electrocardiogram was recorded in 1887, however only in 1901 was a quantifiable result obtained from the string galvanometer.
However, Einthoven needed an exact way of measuring the minute amounts of current. In 1897 a French electrical engineer, Clement Ader, invented the "string galvanometer", containing a tensioned string of quartz. In 1903, Einthoven modified Ader's machine, adding electrodes attached to the patients limbs and thorax.
In 1904 he met Willem Einthoven at the International Physiological Congress in Brussels and then began to make use of a string galvanometer. He published on ECGs and vagus nerve stimulation experiments on frogs in 1908. [1] [2] He began to examine cardiac arrhythmias and their diagnosis. From 1903 to 1930 he worked at the department of zoology ...
Williams traveled to Holland to study the methods of Willem Einthoven in 1911. [ 2 ] He constructed the first string galvanometer in America, pioneered vectorcardiography , discovered the ventricular vulnerable period, and first determined the 60-Hz current required to produce ventricular fibrillation with body-surface electrodes.
Willem van der Vlugt: 1903 Hendrik Barend Greven: 1903–1904 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes: 1904–1905 Jan van Leeuwen: 1905–1906 Willem Einthoven: 1906–1907 Willem Nolen: 1907–1908 Jacobus Johannes Hartman: 1908–1909 Jacob Verdam: 1909–1910 Jan Cornelis Kluijver: 1910–1911 Petrus Johannes Blok: 1911–1912 Fredrik Pijper: 1912–1913 ...
Joseph John O'Connell (1861–1959), U.S. – number of inventions relating to telephony and electrical engineering; Theophil Wilgodt Odhner (1845–1903), Sweden/Russia – the Odhner Arithmometer, a mechanical calculator; Paul Offit (born 1951), U.S., along with Fred Clark and Stanley Plotkin, invented a pentavalent Rotavirus vaccine