X-Ray Tube
notes: label: Description
content: High intensity, hot cathode, fixed anode X-ray tube with a tungsten filament. William David Coolidge (1873-1975), an American physicist, described the form in the Physical Review (Dec. 1913), and demonstrated an example at a meeting in New York City later that month. Further developed occured in connections with the U.S. Army medical service during World War I. This example dates from the post-war period.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the American College of Radiology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0435.010
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0435.010
label: accession number
content: 1978.0435
label: collector/donor number
content: 2986
objectType: label: Object Name
content: x-ray tube
label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 27 1/4 in x 6 in; 12.065 cm x 69.215 cm x 15.24 cm