X-Ray Tube
name: label: maker
content: Queen and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Cold cathode glass x-ray tube designed by Henry Lyman Saÿen and manufactured by Queen & Co. in Philadelphia.
label: Description
content: The form, manufactured between 1897 and 1905, was the first that automatically regulated the gas pressure so that the output and quality of x-rays could be maintained. It won the John Scott Medal, from the Franklin Institute, in 1898.
label: Description
content: A label on this example reads "3808." Two connectors are missing. Henry Lyman Saÿen was also a pioneer of American abstract art.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Lyman Saÿen, “Roentgen Ray Tube,” U.S. Patent 594,036 (Nov 23, 1897), assigned to Queen & Co.
label: Description
content: Queen & Co., Queen Self-Regulating X-Ray Tube (Philadelphia, n.d.).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.112
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.112
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, copper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 33.5 cm x 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm; 13 3/16 in x 6 7/8 in x 4 15/16 in