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  • Roscoe Graham, Dietary Services

    Description/Abstract: Roscoe Graham organizes potato chips. He began July 25, 1920, as a trainee butcher at Duke Medical Center. He went on to work as a stockroom attendant, food service worker I and food service aide senior before his promotion to food service...
    Date: undated

  • Therapeutic bed with compressor, invention of J. Deryl Hart.

    Description/Abstract: In the late 1920s, J. Deryl Hart invented a variable pressure bed (or air mattress) to ease patient’s bed sores. Hart patented many of his inventions, which also included a pneumatic bed, an operating room supply table, and a surgical basin with a...
    Date: undated

  • J. Deryl Hart with wash basin

    Description/Abstract: Hart came to Duke University in 1929 as a member of the original faculty of Duke Hospital. In 1929, Hart initiated the Private Diagnostic Clinic plan with Frederic Moir Hanes. He served as chair of the Private Diagnostic Clinic and later as...
    Date: 1966