X-Ray Tube
name: label: maker
content: Kesselring X-Ray Tube Company
notes: label: Description
content: Glass x-ray tube with an aluminum anode and an aluminum cathode. A large copper heat sink surrounds the tungsten target on the anticathode. The "KESSELRING X-RAY TUBE CO." inscription is that of Hermann M. Kesselring, a German citizen living in Chicago in the early twentieth century.
label: Description
content: Ref: Hermann M. Kesselring, “X-Ray Tube,” U.S. Patent 1,092,489 (April 7, 1914).
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 of Emil Grubbé
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-05009
label: accession number
content: 161220
label: catalog number
content: M-05009
label: maker number
content: 6593
objectType: label: Object Name
content: X-Ray Tube
label: Object Name
content: x-ray tube
label: Object Name
content: Ion X-Ray Tube
label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, copper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: asbestos (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, platinum (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 24 cm x 15 cm x 49 cm; 9 7/16 in x 5 7/8 in x 19 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 19 in x 6 in; 22.225 cm x 48.26 cm x 15.24 cm