X-Ray Tube
notes: label: Description
content: Daniel William Shea (1859-1930) was a physics professor at The Catholic University of America who began experimenting with X-rays soon after learning of Roentgen’s discovery in late 1895. Dr. Shea demonstrated this early glass X-ray tube to William Howard Taft, then serving as a Federal Circuit Court judge, and Taft was able to see the bones of his hand.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United Kingdom: England, Cambridge
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.N-08095
label: accession number
content: 240640
label: catalog number
content: N-08095
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, X-Ray