1901 EINTHOVEN, Willem (1860 – 1927)
Un nouveau galvanomètre.
Einthoven directed much of his research to the development and perfection of recording instruments. His most famous work was in connexion with his string galvanometer, a perfection of the instrument invented by J. S. …
GMN 840 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/598
1902 EINTHOVEN, Willem (1860 – 1927)
Galvanometrische registratie van het menschelijk electrocardiogram IN: Herinneringsbundel Prof. S.S. Rosenstein, pp.101-106.
First description of Einthoven's string galvanometer that recorded electrical changes occurring in the human heart. Includes the first illustration of an EKG (ECG) recording. Modern electrocardiography became a realit…
GMN 842 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/618
1906 EINTHOVEN, Willem (1860 – 1927)
Het telecardiogram.
This paper includes the first published ECG tracing of atrial fibrillation. See W. Bruce Fye, "Tracing atrial fibrillation - 100 years," New Eng. J. Med., 355 (2006) 1412.
GMN 11589 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13788
1909 SAMOJLOFF, A.
Elektrokardiogramme.
This 37-page pamphlet was the earliest collection of information regarding electrocardiography. It contained "only single lead electrocardiograms, limited to mitral stenosis and hypertrophy of the right and left venti…
GMN 11680 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13881
1910 KRAUS, Friedrich (1858 – 1936); NICOLAI, Georg Friedrich (1874 – 1964)
Das Elektrokardiogramm des gesunden and kranken Menschen.
The first comprehensive monograph on electrocardiography in any language.
GMN 11674 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13875
1913 LEWIS, Sir Thomas (1881 – 1945)
Clinical electrocardiography.
The first textbook of electrocardiography.
GMN 11679 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13880
1920 MANN, Hubert (1891 – 1975)
A method of analyzing the electrocardiogram.
Mann developed the monocardiogram while a fourth-year medical student. This was the first vector loop and the beginning of modern vectorcardiography.
GMN 2853.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3639
1994 FYE, W. Bruce (1946 – )
A history of the origin, evolution, and impact of electrocardiography.
GMN 13823 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16112
