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  2. String galvanometer - Wikipedia

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    [4] Einthoven developed a sensitive form of string galvanomter that allowed photographic recording of the impulses associated with the heartbeat. He was a leader in applying the string galvanometer to physiology and medicine, leading to today's electrocardiography. [5] Einthoven was awarded the 1924 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for his ...

  3. Willem Einthoven - Wikipedia

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    Willem Einthoven (21 May 1860 – 29 September 1927) was a Dutch medical doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiograph (ECG or EKG) in 1895 and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1924 for it ("for the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram").

  4. Talk:Willem Einthoven - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Alexander Filippovich Samoylov - Wikipedia

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    He then went on to study the heart muscles of frogs and was able to detect the electrical impulses associated with the cardiac cycles. 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 ...

  6. Thomas Lewis (cardiologist) - Wikipedia

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    From 1906, he corresponded with the Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven concerning the latter's invention of the string galvanometer and electrocardiography, and Lewis pioneered its use in clinical settings. Accordingly, Lewis is considered the "father of clinical cardiac electrophysiology".

  7. List of films about Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The Truth According to Wikipedia (also referred to as Wiki's Warhead and Wiki's Truth) is a 2008 Dutch documentary film about Wikipedia directed by IJsbrand van Veelen [1] which was originally shown on Backlight. The documentary examines the reliability of Wikipedia, and the dichotomy between usage of experts

  8. Truth (2015 film) - Wikipedia

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    Truth is a 2015 American biographical political drama film written, produced and directed by James Vanderbilt in his directorial debut. It is based on American television news producer Mary Mapes 's memoir Truth and Duty: The Press, the President and the Privilege of Power .

  9. Category:Galvanometers - Wikipedia

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