Harvard Apparatus

Harvard Apparatus

Harvard Apparatus, the major US manufacturer of specialized physiological research laboratory equipment, was founded in 1901 by Dr. William T. Porter of Harvard Medical School. Frustrated by the lack of high quality equipment then available, Dr. Porter began manufacturing his own high quality physiology teaching equipment, which began to be known simply as "Harvard Apparatus". The company invented the mechanical syringe pump in the 1950s and introduced the first microprocessor controlled syringe pumps in the 1980s. Harvard Apparatus also developed first volume controlled- and then pressure controlled ventilators, pulsatile blood pumps, transducers, amplifiers, recorders, glassware and many other specialized bioscience research products.

Harvard Apparatus is now part of the Harvard Bioscience family of companies. Harvard Bioscience (Nasdaq: HBIO) is a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of scientific instruments. Its products are sold to thousands of researchers in over 100 countries; the company has sales and manufacturing operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria and Belgium with sales facilities in Japan, France, and Canada.

References

*"Circulation" , 1985;71;4-10 WB Fry. Biography of William T. Porter [http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/71/1/4?hits=10&FIRSTINDEX=0&FULLTEXT=william+porter&SEARCHID=1&gca=circulationaha%3B71%2F1%2F4&]


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