All You Need to Know About the Latham Bowl

• The Latham bowl was invented be this really cool guy named Jack Latham (nope, not a coincidence)
• This bowl actully was the first air tight disposable bowl invented (a bowl: a medical instament that seperates different types of blood, like red blood cells and white blood cells through weight.) Before disposable bowls, the metel bowl had to me taken apart and sterilized after every use.
• This great, awe-inspiring bowl was made in the graced year of 1971 (even though most of the people I know weren't even born)
• Wanna know where the Latham bowl was invented? Good old MASSACHUSETTS!!!!
• If you want to get spacific, the bowl was made in Harvard, but its all good.
• Did you know that the Latham bowl can make around 3,000 to 6,000 revolutions in a minuete? Cool, huh?
• Of corse, this bowl is made of plastic, one of the coolest materials on earth. (Though ti really can't compare to the almighty blood)
• Have you ever hearf of Haemonetics? Its the company started by Jack L. To manufacture his bowl, and other blood equiptment Jack made.
• The Latham bowl spins in another inspiring container called a centrifuge.
• If you ever need red cells, platelets, and /or plasma, now you know how you got it.

all this great info. Is from one of the Haemonetics web pages; http://www.haemonetics.com/abouthae.htm