MacAlaster-Wiggin Co. X-ray tube
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: MacAlaster & Wiggin Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Cold cathode glass X-ray tube with "41098” and “MADE IN BOSTON by MACALASTER, WIGGIN CO.” and “Pat. 594036” and “TUNGSTEN TARGET" inscriptions. Reference: US Patent 594036, “Roentgen Ray Tube,” issued 23 November 1897 to Henry Lyman Sayen, assigned to The Queen & Company of Philadelphia.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Wellesley College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0043.04
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0043.04
label: accession number
content: 1981.0043
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Xray Tube
label: Object Name
content: x-ray tube
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 in x 5 7/8 in; x 50.8 cm x 14.99997 cm