Spectro-Chrome
name: label: Associated Name
content: Ghadiali, Dinshah P.
notes: label: Description
content: Dinshah Pestanji Ghadiali (1873-1966) was an inventor and popular science lecturer from India who moved to the United States, settled in Denaga, N.J., and set to work as an inventor and lecturer on science and medicine. The Spectro-Chrome, which he introduced in 1920, was an alternative healing method based on visible light therapy. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration was not impressed.
label: Description
content: The inscription on this device reads "DINSHAH - ATTUNED COLOR WAVES - SEMAPHORE."
label: Description
content: Ref: Matthew Lavine, “The Science of Automatic Precision: The Rise and Fall of Spectro-Chrome Therapy,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 44 (2014): 140-177.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: East Indian Americans
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content: Medicine and Science: Pharmacy
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Richard J. Morris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0529.01
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0529.01
label: accession number
content: 1980.0529
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Spectro-Chrome
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 115 cm x 37 cm x 43 cm; 45 1/4 in x 14 9/16 in x 16 15/16 in