Object Details
- Description
- Blood glucose monitor with operator's manual and lancing device. Blood glucose monitor is white plastic with LCD display panel, blue and red buttons (ON/OFF, SELECT, START), and black print. Operator's manual is white paper with gray, black, and red print and includes pictorial instructions for use. Operator's Manual cover is gray and blue graph-ruled with red, orange, yellow zig-zag "graph line," white print, and picture of blood glucose monitor on it. SoftTouch lancing device is white plastic, shaped like a pen, with red print.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- about 1988
- maker
- Boehringer Mannheim Corporation
- place made
- United States: Indiana, Indianapolis
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Diabetes
- Credit Line
- Gift of Jeffrey Roe
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 2014.0140.10
- accession number
- 2014.0140
- catalog number
- 2014.0140.10
- Object Name
- blood glucose monitor
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- blood glucose monitor: 5 cm x 9 cm x 1.7 cm; 1 31/32 in x 3 17/32 in x 21/32 in
- finger pricking device: 1.6 cm x 12.5 cm x 1.3 cm; 5/8 in x 4 29/32 in x 1/2 in
- Record ID
- nmah_1465209