X-Ray Shield
notes: label: Description
content: X-ray shield with an inscription that reads “Patented / R. Friedlander & Co. / MANUFACTURERS / CHICAGO, U.S.A.” Robert Friedlander was in business by 1896, with offices in Chicago and New York. He died in 1915 of the effects of X-rays, and so did his company.
label: Description
content: Ref: Robert Friedlander, “Shield for X-Ray Tubes,” U.S. Patent 731,767 (June 23, 1903).
label: Description
content: The Friedlander Co., Catalogue No. 3 of Electro-Therapeutic Apparatus (Chicago, New York, Berlin, n.d.), p. 46.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss E. P. Custis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06955.02
label: catalog number
content: M-06955
label: accession number
content: 214851
objectType: label: Object Name
content: x-ray shield
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 10 in x 9 1/4 in; 17.78 cm x 25.4 cm x 23.495 cm