X-Ray Tube
name: label: maker
content: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Hot cathode x-ray tube with a “Westinghouse” inscription, designed for use in a fluoroscope. Westinghouse was making fluoroscopes by 1930. A fluoroscope, with its fluorescent screen, is used for viewing x-ray images without taking and developing x-ray photographs.
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: 1978.0435.022
label: accession number
content: 1978.0435
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0435.022
label: collector/donor number
content: 2979
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 1/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 43.815 cm x 9.525 cm