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Title

Heavy current x-ray tube

Description

Early glass X-ray tube designed to work with heavy currents
Pictured here is an X-ray tube originally from the Radiology Department of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Glasgow was the first city in the world to have an official radiology unity in a hospital, set up by physician and engineer, Dr John Macintyre.
After the discovery of X-radiation by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895, Macintyre demonstrated the use of X-rays in medicine and went on to set up the radiology department of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1896.

Creator

Unknown

Date

c. 1918

Identifier

2018.11.7

Heavy current x-ray tube

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Heavy current x-ray tube
Heavy current x-ray tube

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Citation

Unknown, “Heavy current x-ray tube,” Heritage, accessed March 19, 2024, https://heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/items/show/74.