X-Ray Tube
X-Ray Tube
- Description
- Hot cathode x-ray tube with a “Westinghouse” inscription, designed for use in a fluoroscope. Westinghouse was making fluoroscopes by 1930. A fluoroscope, with its fluorescent screen, is used for viewing x-ray images without taking and developing x-ray photographs.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- tube, x-ray
- maker
- Westinghouse Electric Corporation
- Measurements
- overall: 17 1/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 43.815 cm x 9.525 cm
- ID Number
- 1978.0435.022
- accession number
- 1978.0435
- catalog number
- 1978.0435.022
- collector/donor number
- 2979
- Credit Line
- Gift of the American College of Radiology
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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