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In a private communication to John Vardalas we will bring forward suggestions for reviewers.
In a private communication to John Vardalas we will bring forward suggestions for reviewers.
== Review of proposal from Dr. David Geselowitz -- [[User:Vardalas|John Vardalas]] ([[User talk:Vardalas|talk]]) 22:18, 26 March 2019 (UTC) ==
Prof. David Geselowitz is a noted expert in the field. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his “outstanding contributions of engineering theory and technology to electrocardiographic fundamentals and diagnoses”.
His assessment is short but unequivocal.
"I find the proposal excellent.  Einthoven's work clearly merits celebration
on two scores.  One is the development of the string galvanometer.
The other is the development of electrocardiography."

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Advocate for this Milestone Proposal -- John Vardalas (talk) 18:17, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

To the Benelux Section

I will the be advocate within the IEEE History Committee for this Milestone proposal. I must commend the Benelux Section for putting together an excellent proposal. I am confident that, together, we can move this proposal through to approval.

I must select two external expert referees to comment on the proposal. I would welcome any suggestions.

Before I approach the external referees, we should first make sure that we have a good citation. I think that we may have to rework the wording of the citation. I will be in a position to make more concrete suggestions in this matter once I have dug more deeply into the available literature relevant to this proposal. In the meantime, could the proposers answer the following questions. 1) Where was Willem Einthoven's laboratory located? 2) What are the references on which the proposal based its description of Cambridge Scientific Instruments involvement?


John Vardalas, Ph.D. Member, IEEE History Committee

Reply to talk of Vardalas -- Wvetten (talk) 18:01, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

We thank the advocate John Vardalas for his positive response on our Milestone proposal and look forward to cooperate to achieve the approval of it. About adapting the wordings of the citation we are eager as well to improve the text.

For the moment let us answer the questions put forward by the advocate.

Q: 1) Where was Willem Einthoven's laboratory located?

A: Einthoven's laboratory was in the center of the city of Leiden, about 1500 m remote from the Academic Hospital Leiden (nowadays Leiden University Medical Center). Einthoven’s version of the string galvanometer was so heavy that it was very unpractical to transport it to the hospital. Therefore he decided to transmit the electrocardiogram over a telephone wire pair, so that both the galvanometer and the patient could stay in place. The building where Einthoven’s laboratory was in nowadays hosts the National Museum of Ethnology.

Q: 2) What are the references on which the proposal based its description of Cambridge Scientific Instruments involvement?

A: This involvement becomes clear from the exchange of letters between Einthoven and this company. Those letters are in the personal archive of Einthoven. This archive is at the Museum Boerhaave and is available for researchers.

In a private communication to John Vardalas we will bring forward suggestions for reviewers.

Review of proposal from Dr. David Geselowitz -- John Vardalas (talk) 22:18, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Prof. David Geselowitz is a noted expert in the field. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his “outstanding contributions of engineering theory and technology to electrocardiographic fundamentals and diagnoses”.

His assessment is short but unequivocal.

"I find the proposal excellent. Einthoven's work clearly merits celebration on two scores. One is the development of the string galvanometer. The other is the development of electrocardiography."