Accession No

2794

Brief Description

set of seven 78 rpm gramophone records of a lecture given by Lord Rutherford

Origin

Hayes; Middlesex; England (the Gramaphone Co.)

Maker

The Gramaphone Company Limited His Master’s Voice

Class

ephemera

Earliest Date

1938

Latest Date

1938

Inscription Date

1938

Material

Dimensions

length 350mm; breadth 320mm; depth 35mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Donated by P. A. M. Dirac, 1981. The records were sold to Rutherford’s colleagues and students at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1938. Information in accompanying manuscript notes.

Inscription

‘HIS MASTER’S VOICE
Record manufactured by THE GRAMAPHONE CO. LTD., Hayes, Middlesex, England’

Description Notes

Records 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 of a lecture given by Lord Rutherford at Göttingen on 14 December 1931. Bound as a set, with one sleeve for record 3, which is missing from the set.

One page of typed notes (dated 14/06/1938) by Cambridge physicist J.D. Cockcroft, offering the records for sale to Rutherford’s colleagues and ex-students at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1938 for a price of six shillings.

One page of typed notes (dated 19/08/1938) explaining that record number 3 was not included in the set due to a manufacturing problem.

Two pages of typed notes by physicist Dr. (William Bennett) Lewis explaining the content of the slides shown by Rutherford in the recorded lectures.

One page of notes written in pencil, in unknown hand, on paper with Russian letterhead, explaining the content of the slides shown by Rutherford in the recorded lectures (same as typed notes above). Assumed to be later notes (c.1950s) from the letterhead.

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