Radioclast
notes: label: Description
content: Following the lead of Albert Abrams, several American firms made electronic instruments of purported medical use. One such was the Electronic Instrument Co., a firm in Tiffin, Ohio, founded by Lester L. Roby, Sr. The firm’s original Radioclast, introduced in the early 1940s, could produce long, short and intermediate radio frequencies, and sold for $1000.
label: Description
content: This example, a Model P, was seized by Federal Agents, and transferred to the Smithsonian in 1967.
label: Description
content: Ref: “‘Radioclast’ the Latest Radio Swindle,” <i>Radio-Craft</i> (Feb. 1944): 275.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: Ohio, Tiffin
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Food and Drug Administration
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.274347.057
label: accession number
content: 274347
label: catalog number
content: M-12065
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Device
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leatherette (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic, bakelite (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 20 1/2 in x 7 3/4 in; 33.02 cm x 52.07 cm x 19.685 cm