Violet Ray Machine
date: label: Date made
content: c.1919
label: Date made
content: c. 1919
label: patent date
content: 1919-09-30
name: label: maker
content: Renulife Electric Co.
notes: label: Description
content: James Henry Eastman, a Detroit inventor who held several patents for violet ray machines, established the Renulife Electric Co., in Detroit, in 1917. The firm became the Beasley Eastman Laboratories a few year later. One label in the box of this violet ray machine reads “Renulife.” Another reads, in part, “Renulife Electric Co.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Renulife Electric Co., <i>Renulife Violet Ray Health Generator</i> (1920).
label: Description
content: Noble Eberhart, <i>Physician’s Directions for Renulife Treatments</i> (Detroit, 1926).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
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: ZZ.RSN83538U43
label: serial number
content: 73513
label: catalog number
content: 000000
label: accession number
content: 000000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electotherapeutic Apparatus, Violet Ray
label: Object Name
content: electotherapeutic apparatus
label: Object Name
content: violet ray
label: Other Terms
content: Lamp, Electrotherapeutic; Electotherapeutic Apparatus, Violet Ray; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood; glass; plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel; brass; leather; fabric; wire (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13.5 cm x 37.7 cm x 27.4 cm; 5 5/16 in x 14 13/16 in x 10 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/8 in x 14 9/16 in x 11 1/2 in; 13.6525 cm x 36.98875 cm x 29.21 cm