Crookes Dark Space Tube
Crookes Dark Space Tube
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- Description (Brief)
- Marked: "P1B13". Cylindrical glass tube. Three electrodes. A large flat circular metal plate serves as cathode, two rods as anodes. External loops connect to power source.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Discharge Tube
- Crookes tube
- crookes tube
- Other Terms
- Discharge Tube; Electron Tubes
- associated user
- unknown
- Measurements
- overall: 5 1/2 in x 11 1/4 in x 2 in; 13.97 cm x 28.575 cm x 5.08 cm
- ID Number
- EM.323678
- catalog number
- 323678
- accession number
- 249200
- Credit Line
- from Columbia University, Department of Physics, thru Alvin P. Tramm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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