Halliwell-Shelton
name: label: maker
content: Shelton Electric Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: A label in the box of this violet ray machine reads “HALLIWELL SHELTON.” William Gentry Shelton (1873-1933) was a St. Louis inventor with many patents to his name, who moved to Chicago and began offering electric apparatus. By 1922, the firm had become Shelton Electric Laboratories, with headquarters in New York City. By 1927, it had become the Halliwell-Shelton Electric Corp., with offices in New York and Chicago, and a factory in Fort Wayne, Ind.
label: Description
content: Ref: William Gentry Shelton, “Casing for Violet-Ray Generator,” U.S. Design Patent 63,203 (Oct. 30, 1923).
label: Description
content: Halliwell-Shelton Electric Corporation, <i>The Relief of Pain and Treatment of Disease by Violet Ray</i> (New York and Chicago, 1930).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Alfred R. Henderson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11164
label: catalog number
content: M-11164
label: accession number
content: 258913
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Violet Ray
label: Object Name
content: electrotherapeutic apparatus
label: Object Name
content: violet ray
label: Other Terms
content: Lamp, Electrotherapeutic; Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Violet Ray; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood; glass; plastic; metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.2 cm x 38.6 cm x 21 cm; 2 13/16 in x 15 3/16 in x 8 1/4 in