X-Ray Apparatus
date: label: Date made
content: c. 1912 (?)
name: label: maker
content: Foote, Pierson & Co.
label: maker
content: Dubilier, William
notes: label: Description
content: William Dubilier (1888-1969) was an American inventor and engineer with some 600 patents to his name. In 1910 he developed an inexpensive x-ray apparatus at the behest of the faculty of dentistry at Columbia University. Inscriptions on this example read “Dubilier X-Ray Apparatus” and “Patents Pending” and “Shops of Foote, Pierson, & Co., New York” and “110.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “William Dubilier, Inventor, Is Dead,” New York Times (July 27, 1969), p. 65.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: William Dubilier
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.326001
label: accession number
content: 259739
label: catalog number
content: M-11428
label: catalog number
content: 326001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dubilier X-ray Apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 cm x 40 cm x 22 cm; 7 1/2 in x 15 3/4 in x 8 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/8 in x 15 7/8 in x 9 in; 23.1775 cm x 40.3225 cm x 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: container: 16 in x 12 in x 2 1/8 in; 40.64 cm x 30.48 cm x 5.3975 cm