Accession No

2058

Brief Description

X-Ray tube (valve tube with regulator), by Müller, English, 1/4 20th Century

Origin

England

Maker

Müller

Class

physics

Earliest Date

1900

Latest Date

1925

Inscription Date

Material

glass; metal (three white metals, brass); rubber

Dimensions

height 540mm; maximum diameter 155mm

Special Collection

Cavendish collection

Provenance

Transferred from Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 09/1974.

Inscription

‘Original Muller X Ray Tube
[Trade Mark of Windmill]
No 95232
Made in England’ (etched into bulb)

Description Notes

Spherical glass bulb with 2 side arms with brass caps. One arm contains tube-shaped white metal electrode with slight flare at inner end and the other arm contains a white metal electrode with concave disc at inner end. The latter arm contains 2 short side arms, one with a piece of wire extending from it, the other with remnants of a rubber covering.

Condition good; complete

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