Accession No

1985

Brief Description

vacuum tube, 1900-1950

Origin

Maker

Class

physics

Earliest Date

1900

Latest Date

1950

Inscription Date

Material

glass; metal (white metal); paper

Dimensions

length 150mm; breadth 83mm; depth 22mm

Special Collection

Cavendish collection

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘Krypton
U viol’ (paper label)

Description Notes

Glass vacuum tube with two long side-arms carrying terminals which end in white metal cylinders.

Condition good; complete.

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