University Health Network - Academy of Medicine Collection
Category
Archival
Classification
Archival, Publications
Accession Number
006042001
Description
24-page booklet with a card cover stitched together with red thread; the back cover is folded and can be cut off and used as a reply card; the booklet describes the techniques and practical applications of the parts when using a static generating machine.
24-page booklet with a card cover stitched together with red thread; the back cover is folded and can be cut off and used as a reply card; the booklet describes the techniques and practical applications of the parts when using a static generating machine.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Found in the UHN Academy of Medicine research files; source unknown.
Printed in ink on the front cover the first line is in red the subsequent lines are in black ink "An X-Ray talk // other things to By Dr. // Rome V. Wagner" Under this is a picture of a man in front of an electrostatic generating machine; on the back printed in black ink surrounded by a red ink frame " A Little // Too // Good // is Just // Good Enough"; in the bottom corner is a crest printed in black ink "Rettig // Press // Chicago".
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-2-5 Box 18
Dimension Notes
Length 15.1 cm x Width 11.6 cm x Depth 0.4 cm
Condition Remarks
The spine is split where the booklet is stitched together; there is some fading of the cover and yellowing of the inner pages.
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Book
Internet
Reference Comments
"American Journal of Roentgenology: History Page" , David S. Channin, 1993, volume 160, p. 647; "American Journal of Roentgenology: Perspective" , Larry R. Brown, 1993, volume 161, p. 1321; The Health Physics Society of the University of Michigan Website, "The First Fifty Years of Radiation Protection", Ronald L. Kathern and Paul L. Ziemer, 1980, p. 4
Research Facts
Rome Vernon Wagner finished medical school in 1889; he opened an X-ray equipment manufacturing company shortly after 1895; he invented the mica plate static machine and variable-focus Crooke's tube; Thurman Wagner, Rome's Brother, also went to medical school and worked in the factory; Rome Wagner is credited with one of the first to use photographic plates for determining the amount of X-rays he had been exposed to; Rome Wagner died in 1908 of cancer; Thurman Wagner also died of cancer.