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Valve And Mask, Charlotte
This is a Valve and Mask. It is dated 2020. Its medium is 3d-printed plastic, scuba mask. It is a part of the department.
Cristian Fracassi and Alessandro Romaioli are Italian engineers. Dr. Renato Favero asked them to create an open-source, 3D-printed valve to connect an air supply and filtration duct to the top of a snorkel mask, hacking the mask to create an assisted-breathing device. To date, 186,000 of these devices have been used around the world.
It is credited Courtesy of Cristian Fracassi.
Its dimensions are
H x W x D (Red connector): 3.2 × 6 × 2.5 cm (1 1/4 in. × 2 3/8 in. × 1 in.) H x W x D (Yellow valve): 4.4 × 8.9 × 7.6 cm (1 3/4 in. × 3 1/2 in. × 3 in.) H x W x D (Gray valve): 5.7 × 8.3 × 8.3 cm (2 1/4 × 3 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.) H x W x D (White valve): 5.7 × 8.3 × 8.3 cm (2 1/4 × 3 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.) H x W x D (Scuba mask): 30.5 × 20.3 × 10.2 cm (12 × 8 × 4 in.)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics.
