Accession No

2000

Brief Description

vacuum tube, 1875-1925

Origin

Maker

Class

physics

Earliest Date

1875

Latest Date

1925

Inscription Date

Material

glass; metal (white metal); paper

Dimensions

length 137mm; breadth 125mm; thickness 21mm box length 160mm; breadth 137mm; height 52mm

Special Collection

Cavendish collection

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘H’ (paper label)

Description Notes

Two glass tubes linked by one straight glass tube and one curved glass tube. Most of the main tubes and all of the straight connecting tube painted black on the outside. White metal terminals.
Wooden box, marked ‘Hydrogen’ on outside.

Condition good; complete.

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