X-Ray Tube
notes: label: Description
content: Simple two electrode cold cathode glass x-ray tube with a "MONELL / 3077" inscription on the cathode. The thin target may be platinum foil. Samuel Howard Monell (1856-1918) was a New York physician who promoted x-rays for medical purposes.
label: Description
content: Ref: Samuel H. Monell, “Crookes’ Tubes and Static Machines,” The Medical Record (Feb. 6, 1897): 190-192.
label: Description
content: Samuel H. Monell, “A Study of Maximum X-Ray Effects with the Static Machine,” Medical Record 26 (June 26, 1897): 903-905.
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content: Samuel H. Monell, Manual of Static Electricity in X-Ray and Therapeutic Uses (1897).
label: Description
content: Samuel H. Monell, A System of Instruction in X-Ray Methods and Medical Uses of Light, Hot-Air, Vibration and High Frequency Currents (New York, 1902), p. 42.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor P. Custis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07918
label: accession number
content: 223292
label: catalog number
content: M-07918
label: accession number
content: 223292
objectType: label: Object Name
content: X-Ray Tube
label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 12 cm x 45 cm x 12 cm; 4 23/32 in x 17 23/32 in x 4 23/32 in