X-Ray Tube
name: label: maker
content: Phillips
notes: label: Description
content: Gerard Philips (1858-1942), a Dutch engineer interested in light bulb technology, established The Philips Company in the Netherlands 1891. A Physics Laboratory, at Eindhoven, followed soon thereafter. In the mid-1920s, that Laboratory introduced the “Metalix” x-ray tube that, with its metal jacket, was said to be safer than other tubes on the market. The firm acquired a factory in Mount Vernon, N.Y., in late 1934.
label: Description
content: The inscription on this tube reads “PHILIPS METALIX CORP. / NEW YORK / MT VERNON, N.Y. / TYPE CRI / KW 10 / MADE IN U.S.A.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Philip Batchelder, M.D,
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0121.32
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0121.32
label: accession number
content: 1978.0121
objectType: label: Object Name
content: X-Ray Tube
label: Object Name
content: tube, x-ray
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, lead (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, copper (overall material)