Maximillian Neu and the First Anaesthetic Rotameter

Ball, Christine; Westhorpe, Rod

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“…There in the operating theater I was able to use anesthetic gas machines equipped with rotameters and was impressed. For further historical details on the rotameter the reader is referred to the recently published series of articles by Ball and Westhorpe [11,12,13]. Hans Epstein Ph.D., research assistant, referred me to publications on the rotameter, including references on the rotameter's similarity to the principle of Segner's horizontal water wheel.…”

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The rotameter and the waterwheel

Foregger¹

2001

Der Anaesthesist

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The publication imparts information about the personal life and professional sphere of activity of J.A. Segner, Karl Küppers, Maximilian Neu, Hans Bunte, and Felix Meyer, as far as they were involved with the invention of devices for measuring gas flow, especially their involvement in testing the introduction of Rotameters into the medical field. The knowledge that the threat of deportation in October 1940, due to his Jewish background and in view of the politics of the National Socialists at the time, led to Maximilian Neu's committing suicide, is of added historical interest. Together with biographical details, the role played by the Institute of Research in Karlsruhe and the establishment of the Rotameter site in Aachen is presented. The historical outline finishes with a short report of the author's first experience with Rotameters at the Nuffeld Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford University during the Second World War and with his subsequent efforts to introduce Rotameters into anesthesia equipment design in the United States.

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Section: Author's Personal Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%