Radium Emanator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1923-1930
notes: label: Description
content: Wooden box with metal tag that reads “NATIONAL RADIUM EMANATOR / MANUFACTURED BY AND THE PROPERTY OF / NATIONAL RADIUM PRODUCTS CO. / NEW YORK CITY.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Herbert Savoye, "Apparatus for Preparing Artificial Radioactive Water" U.S. Patent 1,452,709 (April 24, 1923), assigned to the American Radium Appliance Company.
label: Description
content: “Merril Eisenbud, 82, Safety Expert Known for Work on Atomic Energy,” New York Times (Aug. 21, 1997), p. D19.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Merril Eisenbud, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0284.01
label: accession number
content: 1986.0284
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0284.01
label: patent number
content: 1,452,709
objectType: label: Object Name
content: radium emanator
label: Object Name
content: device for irradiating drinking water
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 cm x 28 m x 16 cm; 11 13/32 in x 91 7/8 ft x 6 5/16 in