Violet Ray Machine
name: label: maker
content: Fitzgerald Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: A label in the box is that of the Fitzgerald Manufacturing Company of Torrington, Connecticut. Patrick J. Fitzgerald was an Irish immigrant who arrived in the U.S. in 1894, worked as a machinist in Torrington, Connecticut, and opened the Fitzgerald Manufacturing Company in Torrington in 1906. While the headquarters remained in Torrington, a larger factory was built in Winsted, Connecticut, in 1913.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Torrington
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Alfred R. Henderson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11163
label: catalog number
content: M-11161
label: serial number
content: 453018
label: accession number
content: 258913
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Violet Ray
label: Object Name
content: electrotherapeutic apparatus
label: Object Name
content: violet ray
label: Other Terms
content: Lamp, Electrotherapeutic; Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Violet Ray; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19.2 cm x 25.7 cm x 11.3 cm; 7 9/16 in x 10 1/8 in x 4 7/16 in