Accession No

1970

Brief Description

3 glass discharge tubes, 1875-1925

Origin

Maker

Class

physics

Earliest Date

1875

Latest Date

1925

Inscription Date

Material

glass; metal (silver, copper, aluminium, white metal); wax

Dimensions

1970.1 length 480mm; beadth 120mm; thickness 35mm; 1970.2 length 375mm; breadth 120mm; thickness 40mm; 1970.3 length 445mm; breadth 103mm; thickness 40mm

Special Collection

Cavendish collection

Provenance

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

Inscription

Description Notes

3 blown glass vacuum tubes in form of triple S with spherical chambers joining each semi-circle.
1970.1 has silvering on internal faces of end spheres

Condition good; complete

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