Retrospectroscope Horatio B. Williams and the first electrocardiographs made in the United States.

Retrospectroscope Horatio B. Williams and the first electrocardiographs made in the United States.

Horatio Burt Williams was likely the first American clinical electrophysiologist. He published the first paper on ECG in the western hemisphere, constructed the first string galvanometer in America, plotted the first vectorcardiogram, discovered the ventricular vulnerable period, and first quantitat...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Engineering in medicine and biology magazine 19, 5 (2000).
Main Author: Geddes, L.A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
60 Hz.
78 y.
America.
ECG.
Horatio B. Williams.
United States.
Body-surface electrodes.
First electrocardiographs.
High-intensity 60-Hz current.
Medical equipment history.
String galvanometer.
Ventricular fibrillation.
Ventricular vulnerable period.
Western hemisphere.