M0015833: Crookes' type discharge tube and X-ray tube with ring-shaped anode

Previous title, replaced March 2022: The earliest types of x-ray tube. Crookes' type discharge tube was first used for obtaining x-rays.

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Ring-shaped anode, first special type of tube for x-rays.

Photograph of a discharge tube of the type introduced by Sir William Crookes and one of the earliest types of x-ray tube, c.1896, originally part of the Tabor Collection. They were purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1928 and accessioned in 1956 (accession number R135/1956 (discharge tube) and R136/1956 (x-ray tube)). They are not held by Wellcome Collection.

1957

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides entries for the items: accession number R135/1956 and R136/1956

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.