Ultrasonic Therapy Unit
name: label: distributor
content: J. A. Preston Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on the front of this item reads “MODEL 115 / megason XV / ULTRASONIC THERAPY UNIT.” The term "Megason" was introduced to commerce in 1955; the Birtcher Corp. obtained a trademark on the term in 1975. Cecil Justis Birtcher (1902-1965), founder of the Birtcher Corp., was the first American manufacturer to recognize the value of ultrasonic therapy. Shortly after the end of World War II, he imported German apparatus, and translated German texts into English.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Birtcher Corp. Pioneered Ultrasonics for Medicine,” Los Angeles Times (Aug. 16, 1955), p. E4.
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 J.A. Preston Corporation, through Thomas E. Mitchell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0750.30
label: accession number
content: 1984.0750
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0750.30
label: model number
content: 115
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Unit, Therapy, Ultrasonic
label: Other Terms
content: Unit, Therapy, Ultrasonic; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/2 in x 12 7/8 in x 13 in; 34.29 cm x 32.7025 cm x 33.02 cm