Fluoroscope
name: label: maker
content: Standard X-Ray Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Fluoroscope with a "Standard X-Ray Co. / Chicago, IL” inscription. This firm, established by William George Hettich (1885-1931), was in business by 1921.
label: Description
content: After graduating from the Lewis Institute in Chicago, Hettich joined William Scheidel, his uncle, in the manufacture of x-ray and electrotherapeutic apparatus. He later organized and became president of the Standard X-Ray Co. He received the Gold Medal of the Radiological Society of North America in 1926.
label: Description
content: Ref: “W. G. Hettich, 46, X-Ray Inventor, Taken By Death,” Chicago Tribune (March 1, 1931), p. 16.
label: Description
content: “William George Hettich,” Radiology 16 (1931): 964-965.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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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: 1978.0435.244
label: accession number
content: 1978.0435
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0435.244
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fluoroscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 in x 28 1/2 in x 76 1/2 in; 66.04 cm x 72.39 cm x 194.31 cm