Violet Ray Machine
date: label: Date made
content: c.1925
name: label: maker
content: Kny-Scheerer
notes: label: Description
content: A violet ray machine provided a high voltage, high frequency, low current that purportedly cured an assortment of ailments. Nicola Tesla displayed a prototype at the Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893. Kayess, a term introduced in 1917, referred to the X-Ray and Electro-Therapeutic Department of the Kny-Scheerer Corporation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From Mr. Stanford L. Hermann
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.316421.01
label: catalog number
content: 316421.01
label: accession number
content: 316421
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Violet Ray
label: Object Name
content: electrotherapeutic apparatus
label: Object Name
content: violet ray
label: Other Terms
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus; Lamp, Electrotherapeutic; Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Violet Ray; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 cm x 32.2 cm x 18.2 cm; 6 11/16 in x 12 11/16 in x 7 3/16 in