during labor, became one of the most-used tests in obstetrics. The original machine still resides today in the basement of a building just outside the city of Hartford called the "Hartford Medical Society." References with 1906 births 2002 deaths People from the Catskills Physicians from New Haven, Connecticut American obstetricians American gynecologists University at Buffalo alumni Yale School of Medicine faculty United States Army personnel of World War II 20th-century American inventors United States Army Medical Corps officers