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  • 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

  • D. Gordon Sharp and electron microscope

    Description/Abstract: D. Gordon Sharp (M.A. Duke, 1937 and Ph.D., Duke, 1939) operates the electron camera in a laboratory. "This $18,000 electron microscope which takes pictures of tiny viruses and magnifies them as much as 100,000 times their actual size, has just...
    Date: 1950

  • John Hickam measuring blood gases

    Description/Abstract: Hickam, a professor of medicine at Duke University from 1947 to 1957, uses a machine to measure blood gases.
    Date: circa 1947

  • Nose and throat treatment

    Description/Abstract: A hospital staff member treats a patient with a variety of instruments at hand.
    Date: undated

  • X-ray technologists Sudie "Ma" Whitfield, Colleen Cooper, and Lyle Upchurch

    Description/Abstract: Cooper and Upchurch watch as Whitfield demonstrates use of x-ray equipment. Cooper and Whitfield were technologists at Duke during the 1940s. Upchurch was employed with Watts Hospital in Durham, N.C. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training...
    Date: 1946

  • J. Lamar Callaway's hospital office and x-ray equipment

    Description/Abstract: Callaway's office and patient examination room with x-ray equipment. Callaway (M.D., Duke, 1933) served as a member of the house staff of Duke Hospital and professor of dermatology or syphilology from 1933 to 1975. He was chair of the Dept. of...
    Date: 1937

  • X-ray room in Duke Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Equipment in a Duke Hospital x-ray room. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
    Date: undated

  • Hospital staff with an artificial kidney machine

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Victor Murdaugh, in the tie, is demonstrating Duke's new Kolff twin coil artificial kidney machine for a physician from eastern North Carolina back in 1957-58. Invented by Willem Kolff, MD, of the Netherlands, this kidney machine was one of...
    Date: undated

  • Wayland E. Hull demonstrating an air flow monitoring machine

    Description/Abstract: Hull (seated) observes a Duke Hospital nurse as she breathes through a tube connected to a machine monitoring air flow. Hull used air flow measurements to study oxygen supply and the effects of anesthesia. Hull (Ph.D., Duke, 1946) was an...
    Date: undated

  • X-ray room in Duke Hospital

    Description/Abstract: X-ray screen, table, and other equipment in Duke Hospital. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
    Date: 1933

  • D. Gordon Sharp and electron microscope

    Description/Abstract: D. Gordon Sharp (M.A. Duke, 1937 and Ph.D., Duke, 1939) operates the electron camera in a laboratory. "This $18,000 electron microscope which takes pictures of tiny viruses and magnifies them as much as 100,000 times their actual size, has just...
    Date: 1950

  • Sterilizer equipment in Duke Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Patient care and dietetics items awaiting sterilization treatment in a sterilizer room at Duke Hospital.
    Date: 1930