Vitalograph Single Breath Wedge Spirometer
Date
1963
Description
Instrument for measuring the air capacity of the lungs.
Vitalograph was founded in 1963 when Dietmar Garbe developed a robust portable spirometer to screen coal miners for a disease called pneumoconiosis, also known as Black Lung. Dietmar Garbe was asked by the Medical Research Council Pneumoconiosis Panel to source or develop a simple, office spirometer to screen coal miners for pneumoconiosis, commonly called ‘Black Lung’. Up until this point spirometry could only be done in laboratories.
The result was ‘The Vitalograph’, from the essential features, ‘vital capacity’ and ‘graph’. Manufacture of Vitalograph Spirometers began within the old stables in the grounds of Dietmar and Margaret’s family home, Maids Moreton House.
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