X-Ray Tube
date: label: associated dates
content: 1985 01
name: label: maker
content: Green & Bauer
notes: label: Description
content: Cold cathode, three electrode glass x-ray tube with gas auto regulation. A faint inscription reads “GREEN & BAUER / . . . / 25374” with the Green & Bauer shamrock (cloverleaf) logo. There is also a reference to the Queen-Sayen patent.
label: Description
content: Henry Green (1860-1914) was an immigrant from England who moved to Hartford, Ct., in 1888 and began making light bulbs and Crookes tubes. After learning of Roentgen’s 1895 discovery of x-rays, Green made an x-ray tube—probably the first such in the United States. John L. Bauer (d. 1906) was an immigrant from Germany who was working with Green by 1898. Both men died of radiation burns.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Green, Clover Leaf Tube Pointers (Hartford: Green & Bauer, n.d.).
label: Description
content: “BURNED BY X-RAYS, NOW FIND RELIEF,” Hartford Courant (Dec. 9, 1904), p. 5.
label: Description
content: “X-RAYS CAUSE DEATH OF HENRY GREEN,” Hartford Courant (March 15, 1914), p. 3.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
label: associated place
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Albert Soiland Cancer Foundation, Southern California Cancer Center
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0588.03
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0588.03
label: accession number
content: 1981.0588
objectType: label: Object Name
content: X-Ray Tube
label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: purple (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23.5 cm x 56 cm x 19 cm; 9 1/4 in x 22 1/16 in x 7 1/2 in