Electrotherapeutic Machine
name: label: user
content: Johnson, Ingersol Moten
label: maker
content: McIntosh Battery & Optical Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This electrotherapeutic machine belonged to Ingersol Moten Johnson (1900-1981), an African-American physiotherapist in Washington, D.C. The inscription on one tag reads “MCINTOSH . . . ALL PLATE / . . . / MANUFACTURED IN / CHICAGO, U.S.A. BY / MCINTOSH ELECTRICAL CORPORATION / SER. NO, 36D34.”
label: Description
content: The McIntosh Electrical Corporation, organized in Chicago in 1921, was an offshoot of the McIntosh Battery & Optical Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift from Mrs. Dorothy Johnson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0306.03
label: accession number
content: 1982.0306
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0306.03
label: model number
content: 5005
objectType: label: Object Name
content: unit, treatment, electrotherapeutic
label: Other Terms
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Galvanic Battery; Unit, Treatment, Electrotherapeutic; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 49.6 cm x 35.6 cm x 23.5 cm; 19 1/2 in x 14 in x 9 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 7/8 in x 15 in x 9 3/8 in; 25.0825 cm x 38.1 cm x 23.8125 cm