Induction Pad
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920s
notes: label: Description
content: A cloth label reads in part: “INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE USE OF THE / LOCALIZING INDUCTION PAD / . . . / ELECTRONET SALES COMPANY / BOX xxx / Salt Lake City, Utah.” The Magnecoil Co. was incorporated in Utah in 1917 as the Electronet Sales Co. The Utah Payroll Builder took notice of The Electronet Manufacturing Co. in June 1918, explaining that “It is claimed that when these magnetic garments are used, the patient is virtually enveloped in a magnetic field which radiates waves of vital force, which stimulate the cells of the body. By attracting Nature’s medium—four percent of iron in the blood—this magnetic force is insinuated into the body by autoconduction.” In 1938, William F. Craddick, proprietor of Electronet and several other products, received a cease and desist order from the Federal Trade Commission, which found his advertising to be false and misleading.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Utah, Salt Lake City
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Antibody Initiative: Polio
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eva B. Mason
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0913.01
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0913.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0913
label: patent number
content: 1391762
objectType: label: Object Name
content: localizing induction pad, set
label: Object Name
content: therapy, polio
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, booties: 11 1/2 in x 14 in x 1/2 in; 29.21 cm x 35.56 cm x 1.27 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, pad: 1/2 in x 13 1/2 in; 1.27 cm x 34.29 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, blanket: 59 in x 65 in; 149.86 cm x 165.1 cm