Accession No

1353

Brief Description

electroscope, gold-leaf, Curie pattern, for measuring radioactivity, by Materiel Scientifique, French, c. 1910

Origin

44 rue des Ecoles; Paris; France.

Maker

Materiel Scientifique

Class

electrical

Earliest Date

1905

Latest Date

1915

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass, gold); glass; wood; ceramic

Dimensions

height 564mm; breadth 290mm; depth 320mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. It is recorded in the Cavendish Laboratory's 1894 alphabetical catalogue of apparatus on p.59.

Inscription

‘ Electroscope
de Mn. P. Curie
Materiel Scientifique
44 rue des Ecoles
Paris’ (on inside of brass box)
‘E 604’ (on brass plate on stand (added))

Description Notes

Rectangular brass box, sliding glass plates front and back, on black wooden three-legged stand (350 (h) mm); terminal on end of horizontal brass rod passing through hole in side of box, connected to vertical post holding gold leaf inside box; central post supported from top of box, with ceramic insulator; two parallel circular brass capacitator plates (80 (dia) mm) outside box on opposite side with removable cylindrical brass cover; circular brass fitting held on wooden stand by two screws.

Condition: good; incomplete (gold leaf, glass plates and telescope missing).

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