Accession No

2984

Brief Description

discharge tube, c.1950

Origin

Maker

Class

physics

Earliest Date

1950

Latest Date

1950

Inscription Date

Material

glass; metal (white metal, brass)

Dimensions

length 255mm; breadth 77mm; height 115mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Donated by Department of Physics, Guy’s Hospital Medical School, University of London, London, England, 09/1983.

Inscription

Description Notes

Pear-shaped vacuum tube with open cylindrical tube inside the main tube. Side-arm with terminal ending in metal ring around inner tube. Other terminal is standard metal type; brass cups on both terminals to aid electrical connection. Cavity filled with yellow/brown fluid.

Condition good; complete.

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