Diathermy Machine
date: label: Date made
content: 1920 - 1929
name: label: maker
content: H. G. Fischer and Company
notes: label: Description
content: The idea that high-frequency electromagnetic currents might have therapeutic effects was explored independently in 1890–1891 by Jacques Arsene d'Arsonval, a French physician and biophysicist, and by Nikola Tesla, a Serbian American engineer. German physician Karl Franz Nagelschmidt coined the term diathermy in 1908 and performed the first extensive experiments on patients.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0143.03
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0143.03
label: accession number
content: 1991.0143
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Diathermy, Portable
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood, walnut (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: bakelite (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 cm x 49 cm x 31 cm; 11 in x 19 5/16 in x 12 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 12 in x 19 in; 27.94 cm x 30.48 cm x 48.26 cm