Panoramic X-Ray Machine
name: label: maker
content: H. G. Fischer and Company
notes: label: Description
content: In 1956, John W. Kumpula of the National Bureau of Standards, and Col. Donald C. Hudson of the U.S. Air Force Dental Service announced the development of the first successful panoramic dental x-ray machine. The NBS transferred this example to the Smithsonian in 1978.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Newest Dental X-Ray Snaps Mouthful of Teeth,” New York Times (Jan. 24, 1956), p. 33.
label: Description
content: Nate Haseltine, “New Machine X-rays All Teeth in One Bite,” Washington Post (Jan. 24, 1956), p. 9.
label: Description
content: “NBS-AF Panoramic X-Ray Machine,” Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46 (March 1956): 77-78.
label: Description
content: Donald C. Hudson and John W. Kumpula, “Apparatus for Producing Radiographs of Selected Structures withing a Subject,” U.S. Patent 2,798,958 (July 9, 1957), assigned to the United States of America.
label: Description
content: D. Hallikainen, “History of Panoramic Radiography,” Acta Radiol. 37 (1996): 441-447.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, through James M. Cassell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0254.01
label: accession number
content: 1978.0254
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0254.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Unit, X-Ray, Panoramic
label: Object Name
content: x-ray machine, panoramic
label: Other Terms
content: Unit, X-Ray, Panoramic; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 5/8 in x 43 1/2 in x 23 3/4 in; 29.5275 cm x 110.49 cm x 60.325 cm