Accession No

1986

Brief Description

Plücker-type vacuum tube, 1/2 20th C

Origin

Maker

Class

physics

Earliest Date

1900

Latest Date

1950

Inscription Date

Material

glass; metal (white metal); paper

Dimensions

length 218mm; breadth 42mm; depth 22mm

Special Collection

Cavendish collection

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘Neon’ (paper label)

Description Notes

Glass vacuum tube with three spherical chambers and long side arm evacuation tube. White metal terminals, one with long rod and white metal disc set in central chamber.

Condition good; complete.

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