Vibrator
name: label: Associated Name
content: Custis, Marvin A.
label: maker
content: Wappler Electric Manufacturing Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Frederick H. Wappler (1872-1955) was a German who moved to the U.S. circa 1891 and, after training in the electronics field, established several firms: Wappler & Fayer in 1897; Wappler Electric Controller Co. in 1900; and Wappler Electric Co. in 1918. This unsigned vibrator is probably from one of those firms.
label: Description
content: Ref: “F. H. Wappler, Made Diagnostic Devices,” <i>New York Times</i> (July 17, 1955), p. 60.
label: Description
content: Mary Lydia Hastings Arnold Shaw, <i>Mechanical Vibration and Its Therapeutic Application</i> (New York, 1904), pp. 47-48.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor P. Custis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07920
label: catalog number
content: M-07920
label: catalog number
content: 223292.138
label: accession number
content: 223292
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Vibrator
label: Object Name
content: electrotherapeutic apparatus
label: Object Name
content: vibrator
label: Other Terms
content: Vibrator; Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Vibrator; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 55 3/4 in x 2 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 141.605 cm x 6.35 cm x 6.35 cm