Theronoid Electromagnetic Therapy Body Coil
date: label: date made
content: 1928-1933
notes: label: Description
content: The Theronoid consisted of a coil of wire about 18 inches in diameter covered with imitation leather, that was designed to be plugged into a standard 110 volt alternating circuit socket. In 1933, the Federal Trade Commission ordered the Therenoid Corporation of New York, Philadelphia, Trenton, Cleveland, Detroit, and Washington to “cease advertising that the use of this appliance, a solenoid belt having magnetic properties, produces a physical-therapeutic effect on the human body or is likely to aid in treating diseases.” A label on this example refers to the Theronoid Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio. Created by Philip Isley
label: Description
content: Ref: Edward Pendray, “3 Healing Firms Under Scrutiny In Radio Inquiry,” New York Herald Tribune (Dec. 27, 1929), p. 24.
label: Description
content: Theronoid Health News.
label: Description
content: Carolyn Thomas De La Pena, The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American (New York and London, 2003).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.321662.01
label: catalog number
content: 321662.01
label: accession number
content: 321662
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electromagnetic therapy apparatus
label: Object Name
content: body coil
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored: 5 in x 21 in x 19 in; 12.7 cm x 53.34 cm x 48.26 cm