X-Ray Tube
date: label: Date made
content: 1931 - 1932
name: label: maker
content: Westinghouse X-Ray Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Westinghouse X-Ray Co. Inc. was formed in 1930 and affiliated with the Wappler Electric Co. of Long Island City and the American X-Ray Corp. of Chicago. This Westinghouse hot cathode x-ray tube, perhaps intended for dental use, dates from the early 1930s.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Westinghouse Enters Medical Apparatus Field,” New York Herald Tribune (July 2, 1930), p. 30.
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 Fred F. Osterholtz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0546.01
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0546.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0546
objectType: label: Object Name
content: X-Ray Tube
label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, copper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, aluminum (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7 cm x 11 cm x 40 cm; 2 3/4 in x 4 11/32 in x 15 3/4 in