X-Ray Tube
date: label: associated dates
content: 1978 02 / 1978 02
name: label: maker
content: Victor
notes: label: Description
content: Hot cathode glass x-ray tube with fixed anode, tungsten filament, and inscriptions that read "Victor / 55771 / ... / Tungsten / U.S.A." Several elements of the form were devised by William David Coolidge (1873-1975), a graduate of M.I.T. with a physics Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig who, in 1905, joined the staff of the General Electric Research Laboratory, in Schenectady, N.Y.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: associated place
content: United States: Rhode Island, East Providence, Rumford
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Philip Batchelder, M.D,
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0121.41
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0121.41
label: accession number
content: 1978.0121
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: Physical Description
content: purple (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27.5 cm x 60 cm x 16.5 cm; 10 13/16 in x 23 5/8 in x 6 1/2 in