X-Ray Tube
date: label: associated dates
content: 1966 10 13
notes: label: Description
content: Glass x-ray tube with a concave cathode. Herbert Jackson, a chemist at Kings College in London, described a similar tube in 1894 for experiments with cathode rays, and later found it to be a good means of generating X-rays.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Maryland, Kensington
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12003
label: accession number
content: 269372
label: catalog number
content: M-12003
objectType: label: Object Name
content: X-Ray Tube
label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
label: Other Terms
content: X-Ray Tube; X-Ray Apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 cm x 33.5 cm x 11.5 cm; 3 1/8 in x 13 3/16 in x 4 1/2 in