X-Ray Tube
date: label: associated dates
content: 1972
name: label: maker
content: Queen and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Cold cathode glass x-ray tube with “QUEEN & CO. / PHILADA.” and “PATENT” inscriptions, and "3808" on a paper label. The form, the first that automatically regulated the gas pressure so that the output and quality of x-rays could be maintained, was introduced in 1897, and won the John Scott Medal, from the Franklin Institute, in 1898. Henry Lyman Saÿen, the designer of this tube, was also a pioneer of American abstract art.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Lyman Saÿen, “Roentgen Ray Tube,” U.S. Patent 594,036 (Nov 23, 1897), assigned to Queen & Co.
label: Description
content: Queen & Co., Queen Self-Regulating X-Ray Tube (Philadelphia, n.d.).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: associated place
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.109
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.109
objectType: label: Object Name
content: X-Ray Tube
label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
label: Other Terms
content: X-Ray Tube; Radiogrgraphy
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23.5 cm x 31 cm x 13 cm; 9 1/4 in x 12 3/16 in x 5 1/8 in