I‘d like to share another fascinating post from the Life of Breath project blog about spirometers. New Life of Breath post-doctoral researcher Coreen McGuire introduces her research and also shares a link with lots of pictures of historical breath measuring devices.
Measuring Breath: from cadavers to spirometers
Last seen fleeing the scene of the crime, the suspect was a white male in his mid-40s and was approximately 5’9, of a somewhat stocky build…
This is the way that we describe people when we’re trying to be as accurate as possible. By invoking close approximations of age, height and weight. These are obvious ways to make direct measurements of a person’s body. But what happens if you need to measure something completely apart from these things? What if the thing you want to measure is something intangible, invisible, and intimately personal, like breath? Read More
