Vibrator
name: label: maker
content: Shelton Electric Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: William Gentry Shelton (1873-1933) was a St. Louis inventor who established the Shelton Electric Co. in Chicago in the early years of the 20th century, and patented a vibrator in 1906. By 1916, the firm was offering a line of vibrators: Junior, Knickerbocker, Gentry, Special, and the Deluxe-Wayne which was light-weight and equipped with an air-cooled motor.
label: Description
content: This example is a fairly heavy instrument housed in a cardboard box. The inscription reads “SHELTON DELUXE-WAYNE VIBRATOR / A.C. / NO. S49401 / VOLTS 110 CYCLES 60 / PAT. MAR. 27, 1906/ SHELTON ELECTRIC CO. / NEW YORK – CHICAGO” and “NO. 3778.”
label: Description
content: Ref: William Gentry Shelton, “Massage Instrument,” U.S. Patent 816506 (March 27, 1906).
label: Description
content: Ad for Shelton portable vibratory outfits in <i>Boston Medical and Surgical Journal</i> 163 (July 1910): 29.
label: Description
content: Electric Appliance Co., <i>General Catalog</i> (1916), p. 247.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William P. Evans
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07285
label: catalog number
content: M-07285
label: accession number
content: 217731
label: accession number
content: 217731
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vibrator
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall -case: 4 in x 11 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 29.21 cm x 19.05 cm