Accession No

2054

Brief Description

X-ray tube, 1/4 20th Century

Origin

Maker

Class

physics

Earliest Date

1900

Latest Date

1925

Inscription Date

Material

glass; metal (brass, white metal, copper); inorganic (asbestos); paper

Dimensions

length 520mm; breadth 245mm; depth 180mm

Special Collection

Cavendish collection

Provenance

Transferred from Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 1974.

Inscription

Description Notes

Glass tube with central spherical chamber. White metal rod anode in tube. Opposite this is a long tube from sphere containing white metal cathode ending in concave disc. Side arm containing the connection for the target, which consists of an white metal disc at the end of a copper cylinder. Side arm evacuation tube with regulator. Brass caps on electrodes to aid electrical connection; spiral brass wire connects anode and target. Attached label reads ‘X-Ray gas tube Heavy anode type With automatic asbestos vacuum regulator’.

Complete.

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