Battery
date: label: date made
content: ca 1887
label: date made
content: ca 1895
notes: label: Description
content: Faradic battery probably used for medical purposes. An attached label reads “The Chloride of Silver / Dry Cell / Battery Company / of Baltimore City, Md.” and refers to a patent issued on April 21, 1891. Charles Willms, the holder of this patent, was then serving as general manager of that firm; he would establish his own surgical instrument firm a few years later. The John A. Barrett Battery Co. was renamed The Chloride of Silver Dry Cell Battery Co. in 1890.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles Willms, “Galvanic Battery,” U.S. Patent 450,840 (April 21, 1891).
label: Description
content: “Fire in Two Factories,” Baltimore Sun (Dec. 10, 1903), p. 6.
label: Description
content: Anna Wexler, “The Medical Battery in the United States (1870-1920): Electrotherapy at Home and in the Clinic,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 72 (2017): 155-192.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.282.02
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.282.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Battery
label: Object Name
content: faradic battery
label: Object Name
content: electrotherapeutic apparatus
label: Other Terms
content: Battery; Dry Cell Faradic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber, hard (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: sponge (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 5 cm x 25.5 cm x 14.5 cm; 1 15/16 in x 10 1/16 in x 5 11/16 in