Object Details
- Description
- The Westinghouse X-Ray Co. Inc. was formed in 1930 and affiliated with the Wappler Electric Co. of Long Island City and the American X-Ray Corp. of Chicago. This Westinghouse hot cathode x-ray tube, perhaps intended for dental use, dates from the early 1930s.
- Ref: “Westinghouse Enters Medical Apparatus Field,” New York Herald Tribune (July 2, 1930), p. 30.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Westinghouse X-Ray Company
- Date made
- 1931 - 1932
- Credit Line
- Gift of Fred F. Osterholtz
- Physical Description
- metal, copper (overall material)
- metal, aluminum (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 7 cm x 11 cm x 40 cm; 2 3/4 in x 4 11/32 in x 15 3/4 in
- Object Name
- X-Ray Tube
- tube, x-ray
