Ford stethoscope

William F. Ford was a machinist in England who came to New York in 1844 and learned about making surgical instrument working with Wm R Goulding in 1855 as Goulding and Ford, Wade and Ford in 1860, the Caswell, Hazard & Co. from 1866-1870, and as the sole instrument maker for Shepard and Dudley from 1870-1880. He formed his own Company in 1866 until 1900, the W.F. Ford Surgical Instruments Co.