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Antique X-Ray Tubes and Accessories
Dr. HAKIM’S COLLECTION |
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Actively involved in
Radiology for over fifty years, I have succeeded in building a personal
collection of antique x-ray tubes and accessories, hopefully contributing,
very modestly, in the safeguard of a precious patrimony. The collection started
timidly some forty years ago with an early large bulb Coolidge tube donated
by a friend, and grew very slowly to its present size by more donations and
acquisitions from different sources, locally and from all over the world. I am happy to
dedicate it, first, to the memory of all the pioneers in Radiology and all the
martyrs of radiation, and to all those who brought the Art of Radiology to
where it stands. But, with the emerging
alternate imaging technologies, the field of Radiology proper is shrinking.
So I also dedicate this collection, as a legacy, not only to colleagues and
x-ray technologists wherever they may be, but also, and particularly, to
future generations of Radiologists, or “Medical Imagists”, to whom, one day,
the x-ray tube may become no more than a curiosity of the past. I am happy to show in the
following pages some items of the collection, with some comments.
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The items shown fall in the
following categories :
Click on
a title or a picture to open the category index |
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“Hot Cathode” Air Cooled Tubes
(Coolidge type) |
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Inquiries, comments, suggestions and
corrections are most welcome.
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Updated
March 2009 (Copyright) |