X-Ray Tube
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company. X-Ray Department
notes: label: Description
content: The "G.E. Kenotron - KR1 / 4262" inscription on this x-ray tube refers to a high-vacuum diode used as a rectifier in appliances (as X-ray equipment and electrostatic precipitators) which require high voltage and low current.
label: Description
content: Ref: General Electric X-Ray Corporation, Coolidge X-ray Tubes – Kenotrons (Bulletin No. 293, dated 1934).
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 the American College of Radiology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0435.046
label: collector/donor number
content: 2949
label: accession number
content: 1978.0435
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0435.046
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 3/4 in x 4 3/4 in; 47.625 cm x 12.065 cm