X-Ray Tube
date: label: associated dates
content: 1978 02
name: label: maker
content: Green & Bauer
notes: label: Description
content: Cold cathode, three electrode glass x-ray tube with gas auto regulation, a Green & Bauer shamrock logo, and "Patented, Sept. 5, 1911" stamped on the anti-cathode. A faint inscription on the tube reads “43104 / Patented Sept. 5, 1911 / July 29, 1913 / Green & Bauer Hartford Conn USA.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Green, “Anode for X-Ray Tubes” U.S. Patent 1,002,390 (Sept. 5, 1911).
label: Description
content: Henry Green, “Vacuum Tube,” U.S. Patent 1,068,426 (July 29, 1913).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: associated place
content: United States: Rhode Island, East Providence, Rumford
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Philip Batchelder, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0121.29
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0121.29
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: Measurements
content: overall: 29 cm x 55.5 cm x 17 cm; 11 7/16 in x 21 7/8 in x 6 11/16 in