Accession No

2365

Brief Description

Crooke’s type radiant matter tube, 4/4 19th C

Origin

Maker

Class

physics

Earliest Date

1875

Latest Date

1900

Inscription Date

Material

glass; metal (white metal); stone (red mineral)

Dimensions

length 210mm; breadth 35mm; depth 23mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Inscription

Description Notes

Glass vacuum tube with swan’s neck evacuation tube. Two white metal terminals, one ending in a flat disc, the other set in the swan’s neck tube. Target consisting of white glass sphere embedded with pieces of a red mineral.

Condition good; complete.

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