X-Ray Tube
notes: label: Description
content: Hot cathode, water cooled x-ray tube with a “. . . MULLER-MEDIA . . .” inscription on the base. This was made in the glassworks in Hamburg, Germany, that was begun by Carl Heinrich Florenz Müller (1845-1912), and that produced lamp bulbs and X-ray tubes.
label: Description
content: The principle of the line focus tube was patented in Germany in 1918 by the surgeon Otto Goetze (1886-1955). Other patents were soon to follow. The first practical example was the “Media” introduced by the Müller firm in 1922.
label: Description
content: Ref: Otto Goetze, “Method Of and Apparatus For Producing Sharp Rőntgen Rays,” U.S. Patent 1,590,971 (June 29, 1926).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.M-09481
label: accession number
content: 228888
label: catalog number
content: M-09481
objectType: label: Object Name
content: X-Ray Tube
label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 in; 71.12 cm