Pennsylvania X-Ray Corp.
date: label: date made
content: 1974
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular, black glass ash tray or dish, with a German inscription from a manuscript by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, "Ueber eine neue Art von Strahlen" [About a new kind of rays], 1895. The bottom of the dish has text in English describing Röntgen's discovery of x-rays in the autumn of 1895 and his initial publication. Apparently the manuscript page reproduced on this dish was the only original page of Röntgen's manuscript to survive as Röntgen destroyed material pertaiing to his discovery. This page survived in the form of a photographic copy. The dish appears to be a commemorative piece produced for the Pennsylvania X-Ray Corp. in 1974.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Fort Washington
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William H. Helfand
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0161.01
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0161.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0161
objectType: label: Object Name
content: advertising device, ashtray
label: Object Name
content: ash tray
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 9 in x 7 in; .635 cm x 22.86 cm x 17.78 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.5 cm x 17.8 cm x 22.9 cm; 19/32 in x 7 in x 9 1/32 in