{"id":259,"date":"2010-11-24T16:12:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T16:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmcldev.wpengine.com\/mcgovern\/2010\/11\/24\/thingamajig-answer\/"},"modified":"2019-08-30T18:02:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T18:02:08","slug":"thingamajig-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/2010\/11\/24\/thingamajig-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Thingamajig answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Alethea Drexler<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>archives assistant<\/em><br \/>\nThe research center will be closed until Monday for the Thanksgiving holiday, so I&#8217;m moving the blog post up a couple of days.<br \/>\nLast week&#8217;s Thingamajig was an H.G Fischer x-ray power source.\u00a0 A similar one can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electrotherapymuseum.com\/FischerImaging\/Bucky\/index.htm\">here<\/a> at the online Museum of Electrotherapy.\u00a0 The Museum&#8217;s model may be slightly older and is a freestanding one; ours appears to have been intended to be mounted on some other part of the x-ray apparatus.\u00a0 You will notice, though, that the configuration of dials, gauges, and the central shifter with the knob handle is basically the same as that of ours.\u00a0 The dials on the right-hand side controlled the kilovoltage, which seems to have influenced the brightness of the resulting image, and the dials on the left controlled the size and duration of the current moving through the filament in the x-ray tubes.<br \/>\nThe Museum of Electrotherapy has a very nice collection of H.G. Fischer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electrotherapymuseum.com\/FischerImaging\/Fischer.htm\">material<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nHappy Thanksgiving, everyone!\u00a0 Have a lovely weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alethea Drexler archives assistant The research center will be closed until Monday for the Thanksgiving holiday, so I&#8217;m moving the blog post up a couple of days. Last week&#8217;s Thingamajig was an H.G Fischer x-ray power source.\u00a0 A similar one can be seen here at the online Museum of Electrotherapy.\u00a0 The Museum&#8217;s model may [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/2010\/11\/24\/thingamajig-answer\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thingamajig"],"authors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}