Accession No

1992.2

Brief Description

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 109mm; breadth 26mm; depth 14mm

Special Collection

Cavendish collection

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘AIR A.P.’ (paper label)

Description Notes

Small glass vacuum tube with white metal terminals and side-arm tube, open at the end to admit air.

Condition fair; complete.

References

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