Electrotherapeutic Device
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1913
name: label: maker
content: Farador Co.
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on the box reads “TRADEMARK / Farador.” That on the inside of the lid reads in part “The Farador Co., Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.A.” That on the device reads “Sole Makers / The Farador Co. / Buffalo, N.Y. U.S.A. / No. 16973." Advertisements touted the Farador as a thermoelectric device that would cure all disease conditions. Clarence E. Edson, a resident of Buffalo, N.Y. who would later be involved with the Oxypathor, introduced the trademark in 1913.
label: Description
content: Ref: Farador Co., Farador Instruction Book (Buffalo, N.Y., 1913).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Miles Davis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0214.17
label: accession number
content: 2010.0214
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0214.17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: farador
label: Object Name
content: farador, electro therapeutic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: fabric (overall material)
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content: paper (part: material)
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content: cloth (part: material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 8 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 22.225 cm x 11.43 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 7 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 5.715 cm x 18.0975 cm x 6.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: container: 3 7/8 in x 8 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in; 9.8425 cm x 22.225 cm x 10.795 cm