X-Ray Tube
date: label: date made
content: 1897-1906
name: label: maker
content: Swett & Lewis Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Two electrode cold cathode x-ray tube with a “SWETT & LEWIS CO. / BOSTON, MASS.” inscription. This firm was in business from 1897 to 1906.
label: Description
content: John Hunter Selby (1878-1965), the donor of this tube, was a graduate of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania who, after a course at the Snook Roentgen Laboratory in Philadelphia, became Chief of the X-ray laboratories at the Mayo Clinic in Minneapolis. Dr. Selby then went abroad, spending several months working with X-ray specialists in Vienna, Berlin, Munich, London, and Paris. Returning to the United States, he established an X-ray practice in Washington, D.C. In 1917, Dr. Selby was commissioned a Captain in the Medical Department of the United States Army and given charge of the X-ray laboratories at Walter Reed Hospital. After resigning his commission in 1920, Dr. Selby practiced medicine in Ohio.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09337
label: accession number
content: 224308
label: catalog number
content: M-09337
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 (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 9 cm x 8 cm x 31 cm; 3 17/32 in x 3 5/32 in x 12 7/32 in