X-Ray Tube

X-Ray Tube

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Description
Early glass X-ray tube used by Daniel William Shea (1859-1930), a physics professor at The Catholic University of America who began experimenting with X-rays soon after learning of Roentgen’s discovery in late 1895.
Location
Currently not on view
Object Name
Electron Tube, X-Ray
date made
ca, 1896
Associated Place
United Kingdom: England, Cambridge
ID Number
EM.N-08094
accession number
240640
catalog number
N-8094
EM.N-08094
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Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
Data Source
National Museum of American History
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