M0015839: Portable X-ray tube, c. 1897, designed by Chaubaud and Villard

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Portable X-ray tube c. 1897 designed by Chaubaud and Villard for use in patient's house.

Photograph of a portable x-ray tube for use in a patient's house. It has a Villard Osmo regulator for lowering the vacuum and a paraboloid or funnel-shaped anode. The item was presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1934 and accessioned in 1956 (accession number R167/1956). It is 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 R167/1956

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.