Accession No

1980

Brief Description

vacuum tube, 1900–1950

Origin

Maker

Class

physics

Earliest Date

1900

Latest Date

1950

Inscription Date

Material

glass; metal (white metal)

Dimensions

length 210mm; breadth 72mm; height 51mm

Special Collection

Cavendish collection

Provenance

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

Inscription

Description Notes

Glass vacuum tube with spherical chamber and long evacuation tube. One diametrical electrode, the other electrode set at the top of the sphere opposite the evacuation tube.

Condition good; complete.

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