Fluoroscope
name: label: user
content: Johnson, Ingersol Moten
label: maker
content: Patterson Screen Co.
notes: label: Description
content: After 1896, when Thomas Edison had invented the fluoroscope and put it on the market, the search was on for other substances that would fluoresce in the presence of x-rays. In 1916, having developed a technique for artificially producing barium tungstate for this purpose, Carl Patterson (1889-1965) established the Patterson Screen Co., in Towanda, Pa. DuPont purchased the firm in 1943.
label: Description
content: This fluoroscope belonged to Ingersol Moten Johnson (1900-1981), an African-American physiotherapist in Washington, D.C. One brass tag reads “Patterson / X-RAY / Screens.” The other has a warning about exposure, and “THE PATTERSON SCREEN CO. / TOWANDA, P.A. U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Carl Patterson, Developed X-Ray Intensifying Screen,” New York Times (April 18, 1965), p. 80.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 1982.0306.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0306
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0306.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Viewer, X-Ray
label: Object Name
content: x-ray viewer
label: Other Terms
content: Viewer, X-Ray; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 32.5 cm x 28.8 cm x 23.8 cm; 12 13/16 in x 11 5/16 in x 9 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 11 3/8 in x 12 1/2 in; 33.02 cm x 28.8925 cm x 31.75 cm