Accession No

1983

Brief Description

vacuum tube, Plücker type, 1910

Origin

Maker

Class

physics

Earliest Date

1910

Latest Date

1910

Inscription Date

6/1910

Material

glass; metal (white metal, brass); paper; wax (sealing wax)

Dimensions

length 267mm; breadth 25mm; depth 17mm

Special Collection

Cavendish collection

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘Helium
June 1910’ (paper label)

Description Notes

Plücker type vacuum tube with central constriction. White metal terminals with brass caps to aid electrical contact. Silvering in tube from use.

Condition good; complete.

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