X-Ray Tube
name: label: maker
content: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on this tube reads "WESTINGHOUSE X-RAY / MADE IN the U.S.A. / WL-5859." The tube owed much to Clayton Tridle Ulrey (1884-1963), a physicist with a Ph.D. from Columbia University who worked as a research engineer at the Westinghouse Lamp Co. in East Orange, N.J.
label: Description
content: Ref: “New X-Ray Tube Speeds Treatment of Cancer,” New York Times (Jan. 4, 1924), p. 17.
label: Description
content: H. M. Terrill and C. T. Ulrey, X-Ray Technology (New York, 1930).
label: Description
content: “New X-Ray Tube Has Super Speed,” New York Times (Nov. 30, 1931), p. 12.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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: 1978.0435.032
label: accession number
content: 1978.0435
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0435.032
label: collector/donor number
content: 2998
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/4 in x 2 3/4 in; 20.955 cm x 6.985 cm