X-Ray Tube
X-Ray Tube
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- Description
- Cold cathode, bi-anode glass X-ray tube with "MACALASTER WIGGIN CO. / CHICAGO / QUEEN PAT. No. 594036" inscriptions. The Macalaster, Wiggin Co. was established in Boston in 1898, and established a second facility in Chicago in 1910. It became part of the new the Victor Electric Corporation in 1916.
- Ref: Henry Lyman Sayen, “Roentgen Ray Tube,” U.S. Patent 594,036 (Nov. 23, 1897), assigned to The Queen & Company of Philadelphia.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- vacuum tube
- tube, x-ray
- maker
- MacAlaster & Wiggin Co.
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- Measurements
- overall: 46.3 cm x 13.3 cm; 18 7/32 in x 5 1/4 in
- overall: 5 in x 18 1/4 in x 8 1/2 in; 12.7 cm x 46.355 cm x 21.59 cm
- ID Number
- 1978.0435.099
- accession number
- 1978.0435
- catalog number
- 1978.0435.099
- collector/donor number
- 2974
- Credit Line
- Gift of the American College of Radiology
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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