Violet Ray Machine
name: label: maker
content: Bleadon-Dunn Co.
notes: label: Description
content: By 1919, the Bleadon-Dun Co., of Chicago, was manufacturing various violet ray machines, all termed Violetta, and all delivering a high frequency ray that “Relieves Pain and Promotes Health.” According to the <i>EMF Electrical Year Book</i> for 1923, Bleadon-Dun was “the world’s largest exclusive manufacturers of portable, one-piece, high frequency generators and equipment.” An inscription on this violet ray machine reads “Violetta . . . BLEADON-DUN . . .” A paper label in the lid carries a guarantee from the firm.
label: Description
content: Ref: Bleadon-Dun Co., <i>Violet Rays as Applied with the Violetta</i> (Chicago, 1919 and 1923).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift from Mr. H. Brownstein
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.316471.01
label: accession number
content: 316471
label: catalog number
content: 316471.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Violet Ray
label: Object Name
content: electrotherapeutic apparatus
label: Object Name
content: violet ray
label: Other Terms
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Violet Ray; Lamp, Electrotherapeutic; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 18.1 cm x 25.7 cm x 14 cm; 7 1/8 in x 10 1/8 in x 5 1/2 in