Diathermy Machnine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1947
name: label: maker
content: Raytheon Company
notes: label: Description
content: The idea that high-frequency electromagnetic currents might have therapeutic effects was explored independently in 1890–1891 by Jacques Arsene d'Arsonval, a French physician and biophysicist, and by Nikola Tesla, a Serbian American engineer. German physician Karl Franz Nagelschmidt coined the term diathermy in 1908 and performed the first extensive experiments on patients.
label: Description
content: An inscription in the lid of this machine reads “MICROWAVE DIATHERMY GENERATOR / MANUFACTURED BY / RAYTHEON MANUFACTURING COMPANY / WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN83541U22
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Diathermy, Microwave
label: Other Terms
content: Diathermy, Microwave; Medicine