X-Ray Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Ritter Dental Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Ritter Dental Manufacturing Company was founded in 1887 by Frank Ritter (1841-1928), a Bavarian furniture maker who emigrated to the United States and settled in Rochester, N.Y. The firm was offering X-ray equipment by the early 1920s. An inscription on this machine reads “Dental X-Ray Equipment / Manufactured by / Ritter Dental Mfg. Co. Inc. / Rochester, NY / Serial no. 8364.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Ritter Dental Manufacturing Co., The Ritter Dental X-Ray Machine (Rochester, 1925).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Richard J. Swenson D.D.S.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12352
label: accession number
content: 285119
label: catalog number
content: M-12352
label: serial number
content: 8364
objectType: label: Object Name
content: machine, x-ray