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Digital scan of a 35mm slide. Image of a diagram showing the equipment developed by Lowell Edwards to test artificial heart valve components. The diagram shows the silastic ball, key component of the Starr-Edwards heart valves, immersed in fluid and attached to a rotating cam. The title of the diagram has been cropped from the image, but the note of speed (3450 Cycles/Minute) can be read in full.