Electrotherapeutic Apparatus
date: label: date made
content: ca 1910-1920
label: patent date
content: 1898-08-23
label: patent date
content: 1897-04-20
label: patent date
content: 1898-05-31
name: label: maker
content: Wappler Electric Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Electrotherapeutic apparatus in a wooden case, with inscriptions that read "GALVANIC LIMIT / RESISTANCE / PATENT NO. 581091 APRIL 20, 1897 / 604949 MAY 31, 1898 / 609639 AUG. 23, 1899 / WAPPLER ELECTRIC CONTROLLER COMPANY / NEW YORK" and "WAPPLER ELECTRIC CO. INC. / ELECTRO MEDICAL APPARATUS / NEW YORK, U.S.A. / VOLTS 110 CURRENT D.C. / AMP [9?] NO. 573" and “GALVANIC RHEOSTAT / PATENT NO. 581091 APRIL 20 1897 - 604949 MAY 31 1898 - 609639 AUG. 23 1899 / WAPPLER ELECTRIC MF'G. CO. INC. NEW YORK."
label: Description
content: Reinhold H. Wappler (1870-1933) was a German instrument maker who moved to the United States in 1890. He began his own business, Wappler & Fayer, in New York, in 1897; this became Wappler Electric Mfg. Co. in 1910.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN83574U40
label: patent number
content: US604949A
label: patent number
content: US581091A
label: patent number
content: US609639A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electrotherapeutic apparatus
label: Other Terms
content: Wall Unit Plate, Faradic; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 in x 19 5/8 in x 8 1/8 in; 48.26 cm x 49.8475 cm x 20.6375 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall (case, not including handle on top): 16 1/2 in x 19 1/2 in x 8 1/8 in; 41.91 cm x 49.53 cm x 20.6375 cm