M. L. Bramson

Mogens L. Bramson was instrumental in the development of jet aircraft engine, the heart-lung machine, and much more. He developed the Heart Lung machine while working at Hallikainen Instruments. Around the office, he was known as "Bram."

Document Collection

Bram gave a collection of his papers to K. E. Hallikainen. Scans are below. The original documents are now held by the Churchill Archives Centre at Churchilll College, University of Cambridge.

• Kektoen Bronze Medal
• Photo Gallery
• Scrapbook
• Scrapbook 2
• Scrapbook 3
• Scrapbook 4
• Hospital Delays Purchase, Borrows Crisis Equipment - Newspaper clipping from June 12, 1971 aboutWinnipeg General Hospital borrowing a Bramson oxygenator
• Proof for article Bramson, Mogens (February 1979). "Report on the Whittle System of Aircraft Propulsion (Theoretical Stage)- 8 October 1935". Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
• Engineering Case Librarly ECL 172A - Description of Frank Whittle's invention of the turbojet engine.
• Engineering Case Libraray ECL 172B - Includes notes by Bramson in 1968, the original Bramson Report on the Whittle engine as published in the Aeronautical Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society in February 1979, and comments by Frank Whittle, Lancelot Law Whyte, and W. E. P. Johnson.
• Photo Album Small collection of photographs
• Times Diary, February 24, 1970 - Jet Ahead describes the publication of the Bramson report on the Whittle jet engine.
• Visionary who backed Whittle's jet engine - Scotsman, January 21, 1970
• Why Men Explore - San Francisco Chronicle letter to editor, January 1, 1969
• Case Study Reviews - Engineering Education, November 1972. Includes review of ECL 172 which discusses the Bramson report on the Whittle engine.
• The Goddard Award for Eminent Achievement in Energy Conversion, 1965. Awarded to Sir Frank Whittle for imagination, skill, persistence, and courage in pioneering the gas turbine as a jet propulseion aircraft engine, thus revolutionizing military and commercial aviation for all time.
• Correspondence of R. G. Warden with Prime Minister regarding recognition for the work of Bramson.
• Kektoen Bronze Medal awarded by the American Medical Association for the Cardiac Resuscitator and Assistor to George Harkins, M.D. and M. L. Bramson, 1962.
• Report on the Whittle System of Aircraft Propulsion (Theoretical Stage) by M. L. Bramson, A.C.G.I.. F.R.Ae.S. - Carbon copy of the original report dated October 8, 1935
• The Membrane Lung, M. L. Bramson, J. J. Osborn, and Frank Gerbode

Bramson Hallikainen Instruments Products

• Search Hallikainen Instruments for Bramson
• Harkins-Bramson Synchronous Electrocardiac Massage Machine Model 1318
• Harkins-Bramson Portable Resuscitator Model 1337
• Osborn-Bramson-Gerbode Pump Oxygenator Model 1235 - Document dated 5/1/60. A detailed description of the oxygenator, its design, performance, clinical use, cleaning and maintenance, will be found in the April 1960 issue of the Journal for Thoracic and Cardio-Vascular Surgery.
• Osborn-Bramson-Gerbode Pump Oxygenator Model 1273. Document dated 1963

External Links

• A Fleeting Peace - Site devoted to early British aviation.
• Frank Whittle, Wikipedia, designer of the first operational turbojet engine. Financing the development of the engine was achieved after an engineering report by Bramson showed the engine was practical.
• Enabling the Turbojet Revolution – The Bramson Report, by Cyrus B. Meher-Homji, P.E., Fellow ASME, Chief Engineer, Mee Industries Inc., Gas Turbine Division, Global Gas Turbine News Volume 42: 2002, No. 1
• Genius Of The Jet | The Invention Of The Jet Engine: Frank Whittle | HD Documentary
• US Patent 1,858,182 - ENGINE. OR PUMP, Patented by M. L. Bramson, May 10, 1932
• US Patent 3,413,095 - MEMBERANE OXYGENATOR, Patented by M. L. Bramson November 26, 1968
• FrankWhittle.co.uk - “The aim of this site is to provide a comprehensive overview of the life and achievements of Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine.”
• Frank Leven Albert Gerbode - UC Berkeley Oral History Project. Among other things, discusses the development of the membrane oxygenator with Bramson.
• The history of extracorporeal oxygenators, M. W. Lim, Anaesthesia, 2006. Mentions work on disk and membrane oxygenators by Gerbode and Bramson.
• Preliminary Observations on the Performance of the Bramson Membrane Lung Oxygenator, Elmore M. Aronstam, Col, James P. Geiger, Lt Col, John A. Morris, Jr., Lt Col, all USA, MC, and Paul T. Rigby, THE ANNALS OF THORACIC SURGERY, VOL. 5, NO. 4, APRIL, 1968
• Painting of Frank Whittle, his jet engine, and his slide rule at The Oughtred Society, dedicated to the history of slide rules and calculating instruments.