Accession No

1990

Brief Description

vacuum tube, discharge type, 1905

Origin

Maker

Class

physics

Earliest Date

1905

Latest Date

1905

Inscription Date

12/1905

Material

glass; metal (white metal, brass); paper

Dimensions

length 375mm; breadth 61mm; depth 35mm

Special Collection

Cavendish collection

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘Argon
made Dec 1905
E. Everett’ (paper label)

Description Notes

Glass vacuum tube with central double rectangular coil constriction. End tubes are silvered from use. White metal terminals with brass caps (very corroded) to aid electrical connection.

Condition poor (broken); complete.

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