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835 - Hifi Hybrid Stereo Amplifier

Bang & Olufsen, Australia

836 - Infared Solid State Laser

UQ, Australia

839 - Electrodynamometer Wattmeter Model 310

Weston, Usa

840 - Calculator Casio fx-82L fraction

Casio Computer Co Ltd. ,

841 - Nicholson Hydrometer

UNK,

843 - Combination Manometer & Torricellian Vacuum Tube

Leybold, Germany

Apparatus in glass designed to measure pressures in the ranges zero to 100 mm Hg, and 0.01 to 15 mm Hg.

844 - Chaotic Pendulum

UNK,

The apparatus consists of one fixed dumb bell with unequal masses each end attached to the central axle, plus two rotating dumb bells with equal weights at the ends, each on separate pivots attached to the central axle. The whole assembly rotates on...

845 - HP-21 Calculator

Hewlett-Packard, Usa

This is a basic scientific pocket calculator, with red LED readout, Nicad rechargeable battery. It uses Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) for calculation.

848 - Student Power Supply

UNK,

849 - "Bathtub" Morse Key Type F

Radio Corporation P/L,

850 - Modified Telescope No 10 Mk I

CTS,

851 - Morse Key WT8 AMP

UNK,

852 - SPDT (Galvo) Switch

Analite P/L,

853 - Surgical Diathermy Source

Watson Victor Ltd. ,

854 - Radiation Counter

Technical Associates, California , Usa

855 - Dynamometer Milliammeter

Cambridge Instrument Co., England

856 - Potentiometer

Leeds and Northrup, Usa

Precision potentiometer. Measures voltages by comparison with a Weston Standard Cell. Measures current by measuring voltage drop across a standard resistor. An additional Volts box is required if voltages above 1.6 Volts are to be measured.

857 - Beam Balance

UNK,

858 - Bench Galvanometer

Unicam Instruments (UIC), England

859 - Kelvin Double Bridge

Cambridge Instrument Co.,

This bridge was used to measure low resistance down to microOhms, particularly that of thick cables. The cablewas strapped between bolts at the top and a large current passed through the cable sample from a battery . Knife edges across the...

860 - Mica Transmitting Capacitors

Ducon, Channex , Australia

861 - Radio Service Oscillator

862 - Battery Operated Valve Tester

Paton Electrical Instrument Co, Ashfield, Australia (c.1938)

863 - Hand Spectroscope

Erma, Tokyo, Japan

864 - Surveying tape

Epson,

Fibreglass (non-magnetic) mesuring tape 33 feet (50 links) marked in 1/8 inch. Brass winding frame and wooden handle. Reverse side of tape marked in links (100 links = 1 chain = 22 yards) Originally from Zoology Department.

865 - Camera Lucida attachment

Beck,

866 - Large Gossen Light Meter

Gossen,

867 - Small Gossen Light Meter

Gossen,

868 - Torsion balance

White Electrical Instrument Co. Ltd. ,

869 - Minor Centrifuge

MSE,

870 - Mechanical Calculator

Monroe,

In 1912 founder of Monroe Calculators Jay R. Monroe with calculator designer and partner Frank S. Baldwin introduced the first of many Monroe calculators. These calculators similar to Contex calculators used predominantly decimal scales and complex...

871 - Milliamp Meter

A. J. Simpson,

872 - Microscope Objective Lens

Ross, London, England

873 - Magnetron X-band

English electric,

874 - Surveying Penta Prisms (Pair)

UNK,

875 - Dove Prisms

UNK,

876 - Catalytic Cigarette Lighter

UNK,

This lighter is in two parts, which fit one inside the other. 1. One contains a pipe scraper and thin platinum wire array. 2. The other once contained a wad of cotton wool soaked in petroleum spirit eg Shellite (Naphtha?) or cigarette lighter...

877 - Peltier Plate

UNK,

This consists of two ceramic plates separated by bimetallic elements which are in series. Voltage input is 12 Voltys, and the temperature difference generated in the plates is 20 degrees Centigrade.

878 - Diaphragm Pressure Gauge

Max Kohl, Chemnitz, Germany

879 - Ceramic Trimmer Capacitor

UNK,

880 - Bourdon Pressure Gauge

UNK,

A flattened circular tube expands in diameter under pressure. One end is fixed and the other end floating. The floating end activates a series of levers, and gear and sector to move a pointer over a circular scale, indicating the pressure in the...

881 - Microprocessor heat sink

UNK,

882 - Heatsink with heat pipe

UNK,

A heatpipe wicks heat from the basic heatsink through copper tubes to an outrigger heatsink.

883 - Microwave Detector CV360

RSD,

885 - Faber-Castell Slide Rule

Faber-Castell,

886 - Duplex Slide Rule

Faber-Castell,

887 - Planimeter

G. Coradi., Zurich, Switzerland

888 - Calculator - hand

The Calculator Corp. ,

889 - Slide rule, plastic

British Thornton, England

890 - Circuit Computer

Tekronix,

891 - Slide Rule

A. W. Faber,

892 - Radioactive decay circular slide rule

Graphic Calculator Corp. Chicago illinois C 1956, Usa

Calculator for calculations for radioactive isotopes Au 198, Iodine 131 and P 32. Designed by Paul W Snowden MD. C 1956.

893 - F & H Dosage Calculator Slide Rule

Frieseke & Hoepfner ,

894 - Projector lens

UNK,

895 - Isotopic Ammonia Laser

P.T.B.,

896 - End Window Geiger Muller Tube

EKCO Electronics Ltd,

897 - Thermionic Diode Apparatus

UNK,

898 - Selenium Rectifier

Soral?,

This consists of two selenium stacks back to back. It delivers 250V DC at 125mA. The voltage drop across the assembly is 14 Volts.

899 - High Pressure Mercury Vapour Lamp

Siemens,

900 - Rectangular 9.5am Picture Tube

Sony Corp. , Japan

901 - DPDT Relay

Relays P/L,

902 - Incandescent Lamp (60W)

OSRAM,

903 - Carbon Filament Lamp

Royal Ediswan,

904 - Projector lamp

OSRAM,

905 - Rectifier Valve 5Y3G

Radiotron,

906 - Rectifier Valve AV11

Radiotron,

909 - DTL Computer Plug-in Card

UNK,

910 - 3 digit relay counter

Stonebridge LG,

911 - Nuclear Particle Detector, Uncoated

RCA, Canada

912 - Nuclear Particle Detector, Coated

RCA, Canada

913 - Valve 7193 triode (pair)

National Union,

914 - Valve double diode 6V4/EZ80 Rectifier

Mullard,

918 - Magnetic Dip Circle

maker unknown,

This is a small dip circle suitable for an undergraduate teaching laboratory. A dip circle is a magnetic compass with the needle moving in a vertical plane to indicate the inclination of the Earth's magnetic field to the horizontal - the so-called...

919 - Geiger Muller Tube (miniature)

UNK,

921 - Thermocouple , vacuum 1 Amp

Cambridge Instrument Co.,

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