Bleadon-Dun Co. spark coil
date: label: date made
content: 1923
name: label: maker
content: Bleadon-Dun Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Marked: "Bleadon-Dun Co. / 2295 / Chicago". A spark coil with interrupter mounted on a marble top, set in a finished mahogany enclosure. Connections for line and high frequency circuits. Felt pad on bottom of unit. Coils of this type were included with Bleadon-Dun's "Violet De Luxe" violet ray treatment kit, a pseudo-medical treatment during the early 20th century. This piece may have been repurposed for use in an early wireless apparatus. Reference: Bleadon-Dun "Violetta" pamphlet, 1923, page 34, http://web.archive.org/web/20041113091213/http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com/Library/BleadonDunVioletta
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Franklin Wingard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.321275
label: catalog number
content: 321275
label: accession number
content: 241556
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spark coil
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 6 1/4 in x 5 1/4 in; 14.605 cm x 15.875 cm x 13.335 cm