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

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Description	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 stand for support. Hart was chair of the Dept. of Surgery from 1930 to 1960. He came to Duke University in 1929 to help establish Duke Hospital departments.
Date created	undated
Subject	Equipment and Supplies Hart, Deryl, 1894-1980 Technology Duke University. Hospital
Identifier	tch00008
Resource type	Image
Holding entity	Duke Medical Center Archives
Archival collection	Photograph & Negative Collection

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