Transillumination Device
notes: label: Description
content: Transillumination is a diagnostic technique in which a bright light is projected toward or through an area to be examined. This transillumination instrument was designed by Louis H. Schwartz (ca. 1883-), a physician in the New York area. An inscription on the cardboard case reads in part “TWIN TRANSILLUMINATION / by National / A SENSATIONAL INNOVATION.” National here refers to the National Electric Instrument Co.
label: Description
content: Ref: Louis H. Schwartz, “A Transilluminator for the Eyes and the Accessory Nasal Sinuses,” Archives of Otolaryngology 23 (1936): 593-594.
label: Description
content: Louis H. Schwartz, “Transilluminating Device,” U.S. Patent 2,161,688 (June 6, 1939), assigned to Walter A. Arneson.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Steven Radoff
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0014.04
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0014.04
label: accession number
content: 1993.0014
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Twin Transillumination Instrument
label: Object Name
content: sinus instrument
label: Object Name
content: transillumination instrument
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 23.5 cm x 13.3 cm x 3 cm; 9 1/4 in x 5 1/4 in x 1 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 5 1/4 in x 9 1/4 in; 2.8575 cm x 13.335 cm x 23.495 cm