Voltamp Battery No. 6, "Magestic"
date: label: Date made
content: c. 1900
label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: McKee Surgical Instrument Co.
label: maker
content: Voltamp Electric Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Wooden box with a paper label that reads in part “DIRECTIONS FOR VOLTAMP BATTERY NO. 6 ‘MAJESTIC’.” An inscription on the coil reads “VOLTAMP / TRADE MARK.” The Voltamp Electric Manufacturing Co., established by Manus E. Fuld (1863-1956) in Baltimore, ca. 1904, made batteries for medical purposes, and later electric trains.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Manus E. Fuld Dies At Age 93,” Baltimore Sun (June 3, 1956), p. 17.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ms. Virginia Hollerith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.311872.02
label: catalog number
content: 311872.02
label: serial number
content: 12983
label: accession number
content: 311872
label: catalog number
content: 311872.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Induction Battery
label: Object Name
content: electrotherapeutic apparatus
label: Object Name
content: induction battery
label: Other Terms
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Induction Battery; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 cm x 22.8 cm x 14 cm; 5 1/2 in x 9 in x 5 1/2 in