Object Details
- Description
- An inscription on this x-ray tube reads "Westinghouse, Made in the U.S.A. WL-388." The tube owed much to Clayton Tridle Ulrey (1884-1963), a physicist with a Ph.D. from Columbia University who worked as a research engineer at the Westinghouse Lamp Co. in East Orange, N.J.
- Ref: “New X-Ray Tube Speeds Treatment of Cancer,” New York Times (Jan. 4, 1924), p. 17.
- H. M. Terrill and C. T. Ulrey, X-Ray Technology (New York, 1930).
- “New X-Ray Tube Has Super Speed,” New York Times (Nov. 30, 1931), p. 12.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Westinghouse Electric Corporation
- Westinghouse Lamp Company
- Credit Line
- Gift of the American College of Radiology
- Measurements
- overall: 9 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 24.13 cm x 8.89 cm
- Object Name
- tube, x-ray
