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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Powered Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR), 1967-1968]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Burgess, William Alfred 1924-]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Air filters]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Coke]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Lungs]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Lung neoplasms]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Respiration]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Respiratory system]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Partial powered air purifying respirator, black in color with removable filter. Respirator would have been attached to mask and battery pack. Silver tube extends from unit and there is small area of orange paint on front of respirator. &quot;Ultra Filter&quot; cartridge appears to be later addition to respirator.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Burgess, William Alfred 1924-]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Ultra Filter]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[1967-1968, between]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The Harvard Medical Library does not hold copyright on all the materials in the collection. For use information, contact the Warren Anatomical Museum Curator at chm@hms.harvard.edu]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:accessRights><![CDATA[Accessing collections in the Warren Anatomical Museum and the Warren Anatomical Museum archive requires advanced notice. Please submit a request to Public Services at chm@hms.harvard.edu to access the displayed item]]></dcterms:accessRights>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Warren Anatomical Museum: 21597]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[object]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1 partial respirator ]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[Respirators]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[physical object]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[Warren Anatomical Museum Catalog Number: 21597]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[This partial powered air purifying respirator was designed and created by William Burgess between 1967 and 1968. In 1967, William Burgess submitted a proposal, which was quickly accepted, to the American Iron and Steel Institute to design new powered air purifying respirators for use in the coke ovens at steel plants. Coke oven workers exposed to clouds of contaminants produced by super-heating coal were developing lung cancer at ten times a normal rate. Burgess was hired to create respirators that would significantly reduce that rate. Burgess created power packs, filter assemblies, and small fans powered by DC motors with 3.6 volt batteries to connect to half mask respirators that would last a full eight hours per charge. Burgess assembled all one hundred respirators in the basement of his home on a library table he purchased from the Countway Library of Medicine. This partial powered air purifying respirator was donated to the Warren Anatomical Museum by William Burgess in 2015.]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/index.php/items/show/17740">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Honorary Boston fire chief helmet, 1978]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Burgess, William Alfred 1924-]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Fires]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Head]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Head protective devices]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Honorary Boston fire chief helmet awarded to Professor William Alfred Burgess of the Harvard School of Public Health. Helmet is white with white patch affixed to front. Patch reads &quot;Honorary Boston Prof. W. Burgess Chief.&quot; Top of helmet has metal area, likely brass, with red fire department logo. Interior of helmet has faded white adjustable chin strap, brown and red fabric to cushion the wearer&#039;s head, and additional black fabric cross straps for comfort and stability.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Cairns and Brother, Inc. ]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[1978]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The Harvard Medical Library does not hold copyright on all the materials in the collection. For use information, contact the Warren Anatomical Museum Curator at chm@hms.harvard.edu]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:accessRights><![CDATA[Accessing collections in the Warren Anatomical Museum and the Warren Anatomical Museum archive requires advanced notice. Please submit a request to Public Services at chm@hms.harvard.edu to access the displayed item]]></dcterms:accessRights>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Warren Anatomical Museum: 21596]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[object]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1 fire helmet]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[Fire hats]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[physical object]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[Warren Anatomical Museum Catalog Number: 21596]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[This honorary Boston fire chief helmet was created circa 1978 by the firm of Cairns and Brother, Inc. in Clifton, New Jersey. It was presented to Professor William Alfred Burgess, Associate Professor of Occupational Health Engineering in the Faculty of Public Health, Emeritus, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, by the city of Boston&#039;s fire commissioner, George H. Paul, in 1978. Burgess received the helmet in recognition of his work as a volunteer consultant on respiratory protection to the Boston Fire Department from 1969 to 1978, during which time he completed multiple studies on the respiratory and environmental hazards faced by firefighters in the line of duty.]]></dcterms:provenance>
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