electrotherapeutic apparatus; sparkgap
name: label: Associated Name
content: Custis, Marvin A.
notes: label: Description
content: This form of spark gap apparatus was associated with Frederic de Kraft (1861-1936), an active member of the American Electrotherapeutic Association who was born in Germany, came to the U.S. at a young age, graduated from the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and established a medical practice in New York.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dr. De Kraft Dies; Therapeutist, 75,” New York Times (Dec. 25, 1936), p. 11.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor P. Custis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07932
label: catalog number
content: M-07932
label: catalog number
content: 223292.150
label: accession number
content: 223292
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Sparkgap
label: Object Name
content: electrotherapeutic apparatus
label: Object Name
content: sparkgap
label: Other Terms
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Sparkgap; Sparkgap, Batch of; Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Sparkgaps; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/4 in x 4 1/4 in x 3 in; 28.575 cm x 10.795 cm x 7.62 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 4 1/4 in x 3 in; 22.86 cm x 10.795 cm x 7.62 cm