Radioclast
name: label: maker
content: Electronic Instrument Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Following the lead of Albert Abrams, several American firms made electronic instruments of purported medical use. One such was the Electronic Instrument Co., a firm in Tiffin, Ohio, founded by Lester L. Roby, Sr. The firm’s original Radioclast, introduced in the early 1940s, could produce long, short and intermediate radio frequencies, and sold for $1000. A tag on this example reads “Auto Electronic Radioclast / Model 20.” The FDA transferred this confiscated example to the Smithsonian in 1967.
label: Description
content: Ref: “‘Radioclast’ the Latest Radio Swindle,” <i>Radio-Craft</i> (Feb. 1944): 275.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Tiffin
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Ohio, Tiffin
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Food and Drug Administration
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.274347.103
label: accession number
content: 274347
label: catalog number
content: M-12111
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Device
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 111 cm x 45.5 cm x 100 cm; 43 11/16 in x 17 29/32 in x 39 3/8 in