Engeln X-ray Table
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Title |
Engeln X-ray Table |
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Subject |
Business and Labor
Science and Technology
Medicine
Medical equipment & supplies
Radiography |
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Place |
Cleveland (Ohio)
Cuyahoga County (Ohio) |
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Description |
This tilting x-ray table represents the top of the Engeln Electric Company product line in the late 1920s. It features a rail-mounted Coolidge x-ray tube (1913) and Bucky-Potter diaphragm (1921) in the table bed, which both helped reduce exposure time and attain x-ray images of greater size and clarity. The tilting table incorporates a sliding carriage underneath the table with another Coolidge tube, which projected upon a fluoroscopic screen, giving a "live" x-ray image. The table includes two x-ray tables and fluoroscopic screen assemblies; wall-mounted high voltage transformer; movable control panel; ceiling hangers (5), junction boxes (2), and floor stand for high-voltage cables. The table measures 77" (196 cm length) by 78" (198 cm height) by 33" (84 cm width). Cleveland became home to many new medical technology industries after 1900. X-ray equipment manufacturers flourished, as exemplified by the pioneering Engeln Electric Company. At the turn of the 20th century, businessman Henry Engeln collaborated with Dr. George Iddings to manufacture static machines, induction coils, fluoroscopes, and x-ray tubes. Engeln soon opened a factory at 30th and Superior avenues, where they produced a full line of x-ray and electro-therapeutic equipment in the 1920s. Engeln Electric Company was eventually bought out by Westinghouse. They, in turn, sold the Cleveland plant to Picker X-Ray Corporation. Picker resumed production of equipment at the Engeln site and, its corporate descendent, Picker International (since December 1999, part of Marconi Medical Systems), maintains its headquarters in suburban Cleveland. |
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Creator |
Engeln Electric Company |
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Date of Original |
1927 |
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Source |
Historical object(s) or artifact(s); 80.49.1 |
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Submitting Institution |
Dittrick Medical History Center |
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Rights |
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information |
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Type |
StillImage |
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File Name |
Om1741_1859397_001.tif |
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Image Height |
1409 |
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Image Width |
1699 |
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File Size |
479.174 KB |
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Format |
picture
objects |
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