X-Ray Tube
name: label: maker
content: Waite & Bartlett Mfg. Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Air cooled hot cathode x-ray tube with shield and stand, and a "W. & B. MFG. CO. NEW YORK / CORNING MADE IN U.S.A." inscription. The Waite & Bartlett Mfg. Co. was in business by 1885, making and selling electrical communications and medical-electrical apparatus. The partners, Henry E. Waite and Samuel H. Bartlett, had several patents for electrical apparatus.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dr. Harry F. Waite, Pioneer in the Manufacture of X-Ray Machines was 74,” New York Times (Jan. 27, 1946), p. 41.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0235.02
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0235.02
label: accession number
content: 1993.0235
objectType: label: Object Name
content: X-Ray Tube
label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 22 cm x 26 cm x 49 cm; 8 11/16 in x 10 1/4 in x 19 5/16 in