Accession No

1976

Brief Description

vacuum tube, 1/2 20th C

Origin

Maker

Class

physics

Earliest Date

1900

Latest Date

1950

Inscription Date

Material

glass; metal (copper, white metal); paper

Dimensions

length 322mm; breadth 32mm; depth 82mm

Special Collection

Cavendish collection

Provenance

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

Inscription

Description Notes

Cylindrical vacuum tube with white metal disc electrode at each end. Side-arm evacuation tube near one end. Paper label marked ‘Neon’.

Condition good; complete.

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