X-Ray Clinic in Trailer Serves at War Front
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Lives of many soldiers wounded in action will be saved with the help of a traveling X-ray laboratory that can make radiographic records of hundreds of patients a day near the battle front: where hospital facilities are out of reach. Contained in a twenty-two-foot trailer, the compact, X-ray equipment, built by Westinghouse X-Ray company, is equal in efficiency to that of many American hospitals. If no outside electric power is available, a miniature built-in power station uses the truck’s engine to build up X-ray charges as high as 90,000 volts. A newly developed condenser-discharge machine stores up the voltage, fed in small quantities from an electric generator, and when the necessaryamount of current has been “saved up " the charge is released automatically in a single bolt of high voltage to the X-ray tube. The trailer is divided into a lead-lined X-ray chamber and a darkroom for developing and studying radiographic pictures.
- Title (Dublin Core)
- X-Ray Clinic in Trailer Serves at War Front
- Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
- X-Ray Clinic in Trailer Serves at War Front
- Language (Dublin Core)
- eng
- Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
- World War II
- Date Issued (Dublin Core)
- 1940-12
- Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
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Popular Mechanics, v. 74, n. 6, 1940
- pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
- 839
- Rights (Dublin Core)
- Public Domain (Google digitized)
- Source (Dublin Core)
- Google books
- Archived by (Dublin Core)
- Enrico Saonara
- Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
- Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
- United States of America
