Generating Coil
name: label: maker
content: Willyoung & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Induction coil with a plate that reads "Designed and made by Elmer G. Willyoung, New York, U.S.A. #866.” Elmer Grant Willyoung (1868-1919) graduated from the University of Michigan in 1888, and landed a job with Queen & Co., in Philadelphia, designing and manufacturing electrical test apparatus. By 1893 he had established his own firm, Elmer G. Willyoung & Co., and was manufacturing electrical and psychological apparatus, and later x-ray apparatus. Moving to New York in 1899, Allied allied himself with Foote, Pierson & Co., and concentrated on x-ray and related apparatus.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: American College of Radiology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0435.181
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0435.181
label: accession number
content: 1978.0435
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coil, generator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 in x 48 in x 19 1/2 in; 53.34 cm x 121.92 cm x 49.53 cm