University Health Network - Academy of Medicine Collection
Category
Archival Items
Classification
Archival, Advertisements
Accession Number
006042002
Description
One-sheet advertising pamphlet folded in half has a photo of someone using a fluoroscope on the chest of another person; inside is a description of 4 types of X-ray tubes then lists them by size and cost; the back page describes the different types of fluoroscopes available from the company listing…
One-sheet advertising pamphlet folded in half has a photo of someone using a fluoroscope on the chest of another person; inside is a description of 4 types of X-ray tubes then lists them by size and cost; the back page describes the different types of fluoroscopes available from the company listing them by size and price.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Found in the UHN Academy of Medicine research files; source unknown.
Printed in black in with red ink highlights on the front of b) " Crookes' Tubes & Fluoroscopes // R.V. Wagner & Co. // 308 Dearborn Street Chicago.
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-3
Dimension Notes
Length 15.6 cm x Width 8.8 cm
Condition Remarks
Like new
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Book
Internet
JPG
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; CD #2.
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.