Deluxe Model Home Diathermy
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 “HOME DIATHERMY CO. INC. / NEW YORK, N.Y. / SERIAL NO. 26142.” This firm registered a trademark in 1940. Arnold Steindler was president.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Edgar Thoren
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0668.01
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0668.01
label: accession number
content: 1977.0668
label: serial number
content: 26142
objectType: label: Object Name
content: diathermy machine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: container: 9 3/8 in x 16 1/4 in x 10 7/8 in; 23.8125 cm x 41.275 cm x 27.6225 cm