X-Ray Tube
name: label: maker
content: MacAlaster & Wiggin Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Glass x-ray tube with inscriptions that read in part “VICTOR” and “60132” and “MACALASTER, WIGGIN CO." A label reads "Tube 4, 1910 / 60132 / Victor Snook Rontgen Co. / Philadelphia, Pa."
label: Description
content: Homer Clyde Snook (1878-1942) was an electrical engineer and inventor who, in 1919, received the Longstreth Award in Engineering, from the Franklin Institute, for his Snook X-Ray System.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the American College of Radiology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0435.076
label: collector/donor number
content: 6042
label: accession number
content: 1978.0435
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0435.076
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 7/8 in x 10 1/4 in x 21 3/8 in; 14.9225 cm x 26.035 cm x 54.2925 cm