Object Number: J5866

Collection: Industrial and Maritime History

Object Name: medical equipment

: infusion device

Description: First miniature infusion device (viscosity control). Experimental diabetic portable infusion device with stainless steel body and plastic hypodermic leading to flexible tube. Designed by Robert Channon, himself a diabetic, to provide a portable insulin injector that could be strapped to the body.

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