Portable X-Ray Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1912
notes: label: Description
content: The first portable X-ray machine that saw service on a battlefield was made by Harry W. Cox & Co., Ltd, and used by the British Red Cross during the Balkan Wars of 1912. Dr. John Hunter Selby bought this example from Cox's son and donated it to the Smithsonian.
label: Description
content: Harry William Charles Cox (1864-1910), of London, began making X-ray tubes soon after Wilhelm Roentgen’s discovery of X-rays in 1895, and died from radiation exposure.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London, City of London
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. John Hunter Selby
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-05182.01
label: accession number
content: 166701
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Apparatus, X-Ray, Portable
label: Object Name
content: x-ray machine, portable
label: Other Terms
content: Apparatus, X-Ray, Portable; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in x 12 in; 69.85 cm x 26.67 cm x 30.48 cm