Accession No

1996.2

Brief Description

vacuum tube, discharge type, 1/2 20th C

Origin

Maker

Class

physics

Earliest Date

1900

Latest Date

1950

Inscription Date

Material

glass; metal (white metal)

Dimensions

length 279mm; breadth 58mm; depth 27mm

Special Collection

Cavendish collection

Provenance

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

Inscription

Description Notes

Glass vacuum tube with long swan’s neck evacuation tube; narrow tube down centre of main shaft. Side arm with one terminal. White metal terminals. Tube is silvered from extensive use.

Condition good; complete.

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