X-Ray Tube
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company. X-Ray Department
notes: label: Description
content: After joining the General Electric Research Laboratory in 1905, William David Coolidge (1873-1975) was given the task of improving the filaments of light bulbs. His x-ray tube with heated tungsten filament, introduced in 1913, permitted higher operating voltages, and thus revolutionized the field of radiology. This example is a "Radiator Dental Type Coolidge X-Ray Tube" made by G.E.
label: Description
content: Ref: General Electric Company, Coolidge X-ray Tube (February 1920).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Philip Batchelder, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0121.30
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0121.30
label: accession number
content: 1978.0121
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: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cork (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 23 cm x 14.5 cm x 41 cm; 9 1/16 in x 5 11/16 in x 16 1/8 in