Accession No

1966

Brief Description

vacuum tube, 1875–1925

Origin

Maker

Class

physics

Earliest Date

1875

Latest Date

1925

Inscription Date

Material

glass; wood (cork); metal (white metal); wax (sealing wax)

Dimensions

length 480mm; breadth 95mm; thickness 35mm

Special Collection

Cavendish collection

Provenance

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

Inscription

Description Notes

Vacuum tube with cruciform configuration at each end. Cased central section in form of a coiled spiral inside a jacket with side arm stopped by cork, for filling section. Two white metal terminals. Partially filled with green tinged fluid.

Condition good; complete.

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