Sinustat
name: label: user
content: Johnson, Ingersol Moten
label: maker
content: McIntosh Battery & Optical Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The Sinusoidal Galvanic Machine (Model 1518) produced electrical stimulation, and was used primarily for medical and physiological purposes. This example belonged to Ingersol Moten Johnson (1900-1981), an African-American physiotherapist in Washington, D.C. One tag reads “SINUSTAT / Trade Mark Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. / MANUFACTURED BY / MC INTOSH ELECTRICAL CORP. / CHICAGO, ILL. U.S.A. / Serving the Profession Since 1879.” The other reads “MADE IN U.S.A. / BY MC INTOSH ELECTRICAL CORPORATION / CHICAGO, ILL.” The McIntosh Electrical Corporation, an offshoot of the McIntosh Battery & Optical Co., was organized in 1921.
label: Description
content: In an advertisement published in early 1918, the McIntosh Battery & Optical Co. noted that the No. 4 Polysine Generator had been “adopted as the standard apparatus in a large number of military hospitals” and had been found valuable for the relief of “any chronic nervous or muscular condition due to lack of tonicity.”
label: Description
content: Ref: McIntosh Battery & Optical Co. “WAR THERAPY” ad in American Journal of the Medical Sciences 155 (Jan. 1918): 2.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dorothy T. Johnson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0306.02
label: accession number
content: 1982.0306
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0306.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Machine, Sinusodal, Galvanic
label: Other Terms
content: Machine, Sinusodal, Galvanic; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 49.6 cm x 35.6 cm x 23.5 cm; 19 17/32 in x 14 1/32 in x 9 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/8 in x 19 1/2 in x 12 1/2 in; 35.8775 cm x 49.53 cm x 31.75 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: p7110: 25 in x 48 in x 40 in; 63.5 cm x 121.92 cm x 101.6 cm