X-Ray Machine (part)
notes: label: Description
content: Gerard Philips (1858-1942), a Dutch engineer interested in light bulb technology, established The Philips Company in the Netherlands 1891. A Physics Laboratory, at Eindhoven, followed soon thereafter. In the mid-1920s, that Laboratory introduced the “Metalix” x-ray tube that, with its metal jacket, was safer than other tubes on the market. This item has a “Phillips Metalix” inscription.
label: Description
content: Ref: Kees Boersma, “Tensions Within an Industrial Research Laboratory: The Philips Laboratory’s X-Ray Department Between the Wars,” Enterprise & Society 4 (March 2003): 65-98.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.267862.01
label: catalog number
content: 267862.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: x-ray machine, part of
label: Object Name
content: machine, x-ray, part of