X-Ray Machine
name: label: maker
content: Wm. Meyer Co.
notes: label: Description
content: X-ray machine with an inscription that reads "The Wm. Meyer Co. / Chicago Ill. / volts-110, Amps-15, watts-1,000, Cycle-60, NO-CA 190." William Meyer held a dozen or so patents, most of them relating to x-ray apparatus. In 1919, the firm advertised as “Manufacturers of X-RAY and ELECTROTHERAPEUTIC APPARATUS.” And, according to a newspaper report, it was in 1904 that Meyer “invented the machine that has made him and his family famous. He owns the whole concern from plant to output.”
label: Description
content: The inscripition on an added plate reads “In memory of my beloved brothers / Max and Sam Levin / by / Abe Bud Levin.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “HOSPITAL MAY PURCHASE X-RAY,” [Columbus, Ind.] The Republic (July 18, 1919), p. 1.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the American College of Radiology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0435.185
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0435.185
label: accession number
content: 1978.0435
label: collector/donor number
content: 2921
objectType: label: Object Name
content: x-ray machine
label: Object Name
content: machine, x-ray, dental
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 220 cm x 48.7 cm x 60.5 cm; 86 5/8 in x 19 3/16 in x 23 13/16 in