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1637 - Demonstration CRO Tube AV43 Amalgamated Wireless Valve, Aust, Australia This apparatus demonstrates the operation of a Cathode Ray Tube with electrostatic deflection. The construction includes a fluorescent screen. This shows the path taken by the electron flow within the tube, as the voltage on the deflection plates... |
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118 - Sumpner Reflecting Electrodynamometer Robt. W. Paul, London N., England The Sumpner reflecting electrodynamometer is the first item in the One Hundred Years of Physics at UQ tour. It is located in Display case S16 in the middle of the back wall of Room 231. Although this instrument looks typical of electrical... |
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W. Wilson, London , England (1913) An inverting telescope with crosshairs. |
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1927 - Famous Pitch Drop Experiment Thomas Parnell, Brisbane, Australia (1927) The Pitch Drop experiment is designed to demonstrate that pitch is a high viscosity fluid and not a solid. It began in 1927, when Professor Thomas Parnell heated a sample of pitch and poured it into a glass funnel with a sealed stem. When the pitch... |
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- ITR Hourly Supervising Pendulum Master Clock International Time Recording Co. Ltd / IBM, England (circa 1940(?)) This item is a Pendulum Master clock, made by International Business Machines in the United Kingdom around 1963. The wooden case holds the clockwork and pendulum and above the case is a connected dial. Dials such as these are called slave dials and... |
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H. Webster, Australia (1930-) Location:S18 Glass slides of radon preparation plant, and use of radon to treat cancer. In 1937, Hugh Webster, who had earned his PhD with Chadwick in Cambridge, and had almost discovered the neutron (Chadwick... |
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- Scientific Clocks master clock ACElec, Australia This electrically powered pendulum clock was made in Sydney, probably in the 1950s by the firm ACElec, to a design developed by Prouds Electric Clocks and Scientific Instruments thirty years before. The firm Scientific Clocks referred to on the dial... |
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296 - Ionospheric Recorder Type Y10D/70890/J28A CSIR Radiophysics Laboratory Workshops, Australia (circa 1947) Location: in the large glass case S44 at the right hand end of the back wall. Built by CSIR Radiophysics Laboratory workshops to design of F.W. Wood and A.J. Higgs From 1940 Hugh Webster and Arnold Reimann were seconded to the Radiophysics... |
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1823 - Synchronome Master Clock Synchronome Electrical Co of Australasia, Brisbane., Australia (circa 1955) This clock was made in Brisbane in 1955. The Synchronome Electrical Company of Australasia built clocks in Brisbane under licence from Frank Hope-Jones' Synchronome Company in England. They also built the clocks in the towers of South Brisbane... |
| 1960-1969 The Bribie array (S44) In the 1960s, ionsopheric physics research was flourishing at UQ. One of the major experiments at the Department's ionospheric physics field station on Bribie Island was an array of aerials running... | |
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Synchronome Electrical Company of Australasia, Brisbane, Australia (circa 1958) Grey painted wooden case with glazed door. Lower dial with hour and minute hands and seconds bit. Upper dial with sweep seconds hand only mounted on inside of door. Black japanned casting carries pendulum, countwheel, gravity arm and... |
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28 - van de Graaff Ion Accelerator Model AN200 High Voltage Engineering Corp. Burlington, Massachusetts, USA. , Usa (1950s) This item represents the 1970s in the '100 Years of Physics at UQ Tour'. In the 1970s, research began in several other areas besides ionospheric physics. These included theoretical astrophysics and experimental spectroscopy. Purchased... |
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UQ Physics Workshops, 1980-1989 Big G Laboratory measurements provide a value of the Newtonian Gravitational Constant “big G” (as opposed to “little g”, the local acceleration due to gravity) with a precision of 6 parts in 104 (6.672 ± 0.0041) x 10-11 m3kg-1 s-2.... |
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2045 - Optical Vortices Demonstration Australia (1990s/2015) This demonstration of optical vortices was put together by the UQ Physics Museum. It represents a strand of optical research carried on at the UQ Physics Labs which started in the 1990's and still continues today. It consists of a small base onto... |
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1819 - Atom Chip for BEC Production Dr C. Vale, Mr B. Upcroft, Physics Workshop Staff, Australia (2003) This “atom chip” was a central part of the experiment that produced the first Bose-Einstein condensate in Australia. The “chip” consists of a silver foil mirror, mounted on an alumina substrate. The mirror foil has grooves cut into its surface which... |
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- The Famous Pitch Drop Experiment Thomas Parnell, Location: Parnell Building Foyer, directly opposite the Physics Museum. Recognised by the Guiness Book of Records as the longest running scientific experiment in the world, the Pitch Drop experiment is remembered by generations of staff and... |
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Gowlands, A set of lenses used to determine the crrect prescription to correct patient's sight. |
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EKCO Electronics Ltd, England The scintillation counter is a device used to measure radiation output, more specifically gamma rays or photons and charged particles. The counter consists of a portable metal box housing all the electronics, while the... |
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202 - Ruhmkorff Induction Coil Harry W Cox & Co. Ltd., London, England H.W. Cox Ltd/London Patent No. /16926 Harry W Cox & Co. Ltd. 61*33*33 Consists of two concentric coils of wire wound on a cylindrical core of soft iron wires impregnated with paraffin wax, all mounted on a hollow base containing a capacitor (... |
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6/six/No 37592 33*23*15 Blown glass tube with anode, anticathode and focus cathode. Electrodes are connected to soldered terminals by wires. Side discharge tube with anode and cathode. Sealed, rubber capped exhaust tube. Glass discoloured due to... |
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Has side arm with auxiliary discharge for pressure adjustment, focus cathode, anode and long side arm with X-ray transmitting glass end. Uses a curved cathode to focus the electron beam onto a tungsten anode. The tube has a high lead content to... |
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Spherical glass bulb (purple from radiation damage) with cylindrical stems carrying the electrodes (cathode end broken). The Coolidge Tube, first produced in 1913 by W. Coolidge, is the forerunner of all the types of x-ray tubes in common use today... |
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Philips 22VP831 05, LaserDisc player used to play lecture demonstration videos. The LaserDisc was the first commercial optical disc storage medium, beginning in 1978, and was the forerunner of CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray. The discs were 300 mm in diameter and were... |
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1060 - Laser Disc of Physics Demonstrations Usa This laser disc comes from a set of twenty LaserDiscs produced in the early 1990s by the Education Group as the Video Encyclopaedia of Physics Demonstrations. It contains lecture demonstrations suitable for first year physics students. The... |
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1004 - Discharge Tube and Induction Coil Pressler, Cenco, (circa 1960) |
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1791 - Laboratory Balance Type 1106 Sartorius Werke Goettingen, |
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Norman Heckenberg, Australia (1983) Norman Heckenberg built this simple Orrery at home to show his children how solar and lunar eclipses occur. Maintenance of the inclination of the Earth's axis of rotation to the ecliptic is achieved using a Ferguson Mechanical Paradox implemented... |
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Three thermopile IR detectors probably used in lecture demonstrations. |
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Hawksley & Sons Ltd, London w.1, W. Watson & Sons, Ltd, London and C.F. Palmer, A box of parts donated by Dr Rex Newsome. Some came from a large kymograph in the Psychology Department. |
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1796 - Domestic Wattmeter Demonstration Warburton Franki, Chatswood NSW, Australia A domestic electricity supply wattmeter is mounted with its housing removed to demonstrate its mode of operation. |
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Two units, each consisting of a helical coil of resistance wire with a sliding tap, ganged together. |
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1798 - Step-down Transformer Demonstration Australia Lecture demonstration transformer. Toroidal core supports primary winding, while a secondary of only three turns is supported on insulating posts and can be connected across a piece of copper or iron wire which can be rapidly heated to destruction. |
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A concave mirror, proably for use with IR radiation, or possibly acoustical experiments. |
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1800 - Transmitter valve 6166A (7000) RCA, Usa (1970) Output valve from transmitter constructed by AWA for Channel 8, Wide Bay Television. Valve dates from 1970. The transmitter, situated on Mt Goonaneman, 60km WNW of Maryborough, was replaced by a solid state system in the 1980s and donated to UQ... |
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Cambridge Instrument Company, England (First quarter 20th century) A potentiometer is a system of resistors used in conjunction with a standard cell and a galvanometer for making null measurements of potential (voltage) . |
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1614 - Valve, Twin Triode, AZ41 Philips, Holland Full-wave rectifier valve, used in domestic radio receivers. |
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Ken-Rad Tube & Lamp Corp Inc, Usa Detctor diode used in VHF-UHF radio equipment in WW II. |
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Philips, Australia Used as an RF and audio amplifier, particularly in communications receivers. |
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Philips, Usa Pentode valve, typically used as IF amplifier in Black& White TV sets, and in communications receivers. |
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1610 - Valve, Twin Triode 6ES8/ECC189 Mullard, Australia Used as cascode amplifier in tuners for black and white TV sets. |
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Amalgamated Wireless Valve, Aust, Australia Used as grounded-grid RF amplifier in TV tuners for black and white TV sets. |
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1608 - Valve, Triode-Pentode 6HG8 Teonex (Supplier?), England Used as frequency converter in tuners in black and white TV sets. |
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1607 - Valve, Triode-Pentode ECL86/6GW8 Philips, Used in audio amplifiers. |
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| Physics Museum Book Hand-list 13.09.94 Author: | Title: -----------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Aderet, J. |Das Rotorschiff und seine physikalischen Gr... | |
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2001 - Robert Hawthorne Slide Rule and Manual Robert Hawthorne, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, |
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Copies of letters written by A.G. Jackson survive in a bound book of spirit copies. Many are quite difficult to read but Tony Roberts and Norman Heckenberg have transcribed them as best they can. Number ... |
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2012 - Synchronome Goods and Details Book Alfred George Jackson, An exercise book survives from the earliest days of the Synchronome Electrical Company of Australasia. It contains information about sources of supply and prices. In 2003 Robert Miles transcribed the contents. |
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Teonex (Supplier?), England Used as RF amplifier, possibly in the IF strip of black and white TV. |
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1605 - Valve, Beam Power tetrode 6BG6GA Unknown, Used as horizontal deflection amplifier in black and white TV sets. |
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1491 - Bombproof Radium Storage Vessel UQ Physics Workshops (?), Australia In 1936 Hugh Webster was appointed to a lectureship jointly funded by UQ, the Qld Cancer Trust and the Brisbane and South Coast Hospitals Board with the aim of setting up a plant for the production of radioactive radon gas to be used in... |
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67 - Palec Valve Tester Model VCT-V Paton Electrical Pty. Ltd., Sydney, Australia (1935 (?)) Location: The tester is encased in a wooden stained box with various pin sockets for testing tubes and a milliammeter so measurements can be made of the plate current. Furthermore, there are switches for the zeroing of the milliammeter, for... |
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203 - Koenig's Acoustic Interferometer (Quinke's apparatus) Max Kohl, Chemnitz, Germany (c1910) An acoustic interferometer using a 'manometric flame' as detector. Coal-gas is fed to a pinhole burner via a chamber closed by a membrane upon which the acoustic signal is incident. Motion of the membrane causes the flame to wax and wane. Even when... |
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214 - W & G Dualface Comprehensive slide rule model 432 White and Gillespie (W&G), Melbourne, Australia (circa 1960) The "Dualface" comprehensive slide rule (Model 432), is a white celluloid covered wooden rule approximately 35 cm in length boasting a metallic framed cursor with thumbwheel for smooth cursor movement. Markings on the rule include sine, kW,... |
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224 - Fuller's Cylindrical Slide Rule (The Fuller Calculator) W.F. Stanley & Co. Ltd., London, England (1907) Serial Number 2449 1907Also marked PLUQ E534 3B_D_5 P98 S.G. LUSBY in case. This piece is composed of a laquered cylinder with a mahogany handle at one end, in total 33 cm long. On this cylinder is mounted an outer cylinder 15 cm long and 7.5 cm in... |
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237 - Radio Transmission Line Calculator White and Gillespie (W&G), Melbourne, Australia (circa 1945) A circular slide rule of outer diameter 240mm, an inner circle of diameter 210 mm and a radial arm of width 40mm. A slider, with a horizontal cross-wire, slides on the radial arm. A central metal rivet holds the individual sections together and... |
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355 - Planimeter Type: KP-26 #2847 Koizumi, Japan, Japan (circa 1960) This Pole (or polar) Planimeter is able to mechanically measure the area of plane figures. The pole weight is placed on the desk. The pole arm connects the pole weight to the carriage while the tracer point is connected to the carriage by the... |
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356 - Hewlett Packard HP-45 Calculator Hewlett Packard, USA, Usa (circa 1975) Serial Number 1350A 25848 The calculator is cased in black plastic, with 35 buttons and an on/off switch on the front panel. Its display is composed of 15 red LED digital "letters". On the back, there is a panel that can be removed, giving access... |
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500 - Pocket Slide Rule with Addiator Faber-Castell, |
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Max Kohl, Chemnitz, Germany (circa 1910) Invented by Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894), the Helmholtz resonator was used to test the presence of a particular harmonic within a musical note. If the harmonic associated with the resonant frequency of the Helmholtz resonator was present... |
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445 - Marine Reflector Compass Model SR150PK Daiko Keiki Seisakusho Co., Japan (1997) Manufactured in Japan, serial number 3502. The date stamped on the serial number plate is 23 May, (19)97. This magnetic compass was used in ships for navigation, and features all of the cardinal and subcardinal directions on a disc mounted on... |
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Fuller’s United Electric Works, LTD., Chadwell Heath, Essex., England (circa 1920) A crystal radio is the simplest radio receiver. The set requires no external power other than the electromagnet radio wave received. As such, a long wire antenna often exceeding 15 m (or 30ft) is necessary, 30m being recommended, depending on the... |
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446 - Elmiskop Electron Microscope Siemens, Germany (circa 1960) The Elmiskop 1A transmission electron microscope was made by Siemens in the early 1960’s. Purchased and used by the electron microscope centre at the University of Queensland, it was acquired by the museum in the mid 1980’s. The electron optics... |
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419 - Duboscq Colorimeter Model No.250 Hellige Inc., USA , Usa The Hellige Duboscq Colorimeter has a black bakelite cover shaped like a microscope. It consists of two flat-bottomed tubes* containing smaller tubes*. The bigger tubes are placed on wedges that can be adjusted (up and down) by two knobs on... |
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1593 - Regulator Valve 0D3/ VR-150 Westinghouse, Canada |
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RCA, Usa (circa 1940) |
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Cossor, England |
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1590 - Reflex Klystron Valve 6BM6/ A1911 Raytheon, Usa |
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General Electric, (circa 1960) |
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1588 - Twin Triode Valve 6BL7GTA General Electric, Usa (circa 1960) |
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Philips, Australia (circa 1960) |
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1586 - Power Pentode Valve 6CL6 Teonex, England (circa 1960) |
