X-Ray Tube
name: label: maker
content: MacAlaster & Wiggin Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Cold cathode, bi-anode glass X-ray tube with "MACALASTER WIGGIN CO. / CHICAGO / QUEEN PAT. No. 594036" inscriptions. The Macalaster, Wiggin Co. was established in Boston in 1898, and established a second facility in Chicago in 1910. It became part of the new the Victor Electric Corporation in 1916.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Lyman Sayen, “Roentgen Ray Tube,” U.S. Patent 594,036 (Nov. 23, 1897), assigned to The Queen & Company of Philadelphia.
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 of the American College of Radiology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0435.099
label: accession number
content: 1978.0435
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0435.099
label: collector/donor number
content: 2974
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vacuum tube
label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 46.3 cm x 13.3 cm; 18 7/32 in x 5 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 18 1/4 in x 8 1/2 in; 12.7 cm x 46.355 cm x 21.59 cm