X-Ray Tube
notes: label: Description
content: Cold cathode glass x-ray tube with "MACALASTER, WIGGIN CO.” and “Chicago” and “Queen Pat. No. 594036” and “74675" inscriptions. The Macalaster, Wiggin Co. was established in Boston in 1898, established a second facility in Chicago in 1910, and became part of the new the Victor Electric Corporation in 1916.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Lyman Sayen, “Roentgen Ray Tube,” U.S. Patent 594,036 (Nov. 23, 1897), assigned to The Queen & Company of Philadelphia.
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the American College of Radiology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0435.085
label: accession number
content: 1978.0435
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0435.085
label: collector/donor number
content: 7082
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 in x 8 3/4 in x 20 in; 17.145 cm x 22.225 cm x 50.8 cm