Rheostat
date: label: date made
content: late 1800s
name: label: maker
content: Wappler Electric Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Rheostat (s/n 19904) based on a design described by Henry Lewis Jones, a proponent of medical electricity, and manufactured by Wappler Electric in New York. Joseph B. Rogoff, the donor, was Director of Rehabilitation Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center, in New York City.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Lewis Jones, <i>Medical Electricity</i> (London, 1892).
label: Description
content: Reinhold H. Wappler, “Electromedical Apparatus,” U.S. Patent 581,091 (April 17, 1897).
label: Description
content: Reinhold H. Wappler and Frederick H. Wappler, “Rheostat for Electric Lamps,” U.S. Patent 604949 (May 31, 1898).
label: Description
content: Reinhold H. Wappler, “Electromedical Apparatus,” U.S. Patent 609639 (Aug. 23, 1898).
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.306968.04
label: catalog number
content: 306968.04
label: accession number
content: 306968
label: serial number
content: 11904
objectType: label: Object Name
content: rheostat
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 12 in x 6 in; 20.32 cm x 30.48 cm x 15.24 cm