X-Ray Tube
notes: label: Description
content: Hot cathode, water cooled, line-focus x-ray tube. Inscriptions read “Original Muller X-Ray Tube / MEDIA HELIUM PATENT / MADE IN GERMANY” and "324246".
label: Description
content: Carl Heinrich Florenz Müller (1845-1912) was a German glassworker whose workshop in Hamburg, established in 1895, produced lamp bulbs and X-ray tubes. 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: 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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the American College of Radiology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0435.007
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0435.007
label: accession number
content: 1978.0435
label: collector/donor number
content: 89
objectType: label: Object Name
content: x-ray tube
label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in; 52.705 cm x 10.795 cm