X-Ray Tube
date: label: associated dates
content: 1941 10 11
notes: label: Description
content: Early cold cathode two electrode glass x-ray tube. The target for the electrons seems to be at the terminus of the tube rather than a metal anticathode. Emil Grubbé (1875–1960), the donor, was a homeopathic physician in Chicago who assembled an x-ray machine in 1896 and used it to treat a patient with cancer—perhaps becoming the first person to use radiation for this purpose.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Emil Grubbe Dies; X-Ray Pioneer, 85,” New York Times (March 27, 1960), p. 86.
label: Description
content: Paul C. Hodges, The Life and Times of Emil H. Grubbe (1964).
label: Description
content: Emil Grubbe, X-Ray Treatment: Its Origins, Birth, and Early History (St. Paul and Minneapolis, 1949).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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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-05007
label: accession number
content: 161220
label: catalog number
content: M-05007
objectType: label: Object Name
content: X-Ray Tube
label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
label: Other Terms
content: X-Ray Tube; Radiography
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 cm x 60 cm x 9.5 cm; 6 5/16 in x 23 5/8 in x 3 3/4 in