X-Ray Tube
name: label: maker
content: MacAlaster & Wiggin Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Cold cathode glass x-ray tube with gas auto regulation (probably asbestos), and “Victor / MADE IN BOSTON USA / TUNGSTEN / MACALASTER WIGGIN CO / 5575” inscriptions. Macalaster, Wiggin Co. bought the Frey glass blowing operation from Swett & Lewis in 1902. In 1916 it became part of the new Victor X-Ray Company.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Fred S. Macalaster,” Boston Globe (Feb. 6, 1946), p. 20.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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: 1989.0398.02
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0398.02
label: accession number
content: 1989.0398
objectType: label: Object Name
content: X-Ray Tube
label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
label: Other Terms
content: X-Ray Tube; Radiography
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: purple (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 cm x 28.5 cm x 18 cm; 8 11/16 in x 11 1/4 in x 7 1/16 in