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1092 - Pulse Generator

1093 - Capacitor

1095 - Neon sign

1096 - Variable condenser

1097 - Armillary sphere look alike

1099 - Slide wire potentiometer

1100 - Wooden Box

1102 - Oscilloscope Camera

1103 - Hydrogen Lamp

1104 - Coolidge X-ray tube

1105 - Covers for mech calculator

1106 - Dosage meter

1108 - Centrifugal Force Demonstration

Emerson Electric,

1109 - Diagnostic X-ray tube

1110 - X-ray tube, rotating anode type

1111 - Optical vortex wavefront model

Norman Heckenberg, Australia

One of a number of cardboard models of light wavefronts made by Dr Norman Heckenberg as a way of understanding and then explaining the structure of 'optical vortices'. These are 'singularities' or 'defects' in light wave fields where the intensity...

1112 - Optical leopard model

Another (see 1111) cardboard model made by Dr Norman Heckenberg as an aid to understanding and explaining laser beams with embedded phase singularities. The cardboard surface represents a wavefront in the beam. The term 'optical leopard' was coined...

1113 - Universal AVO meter

1114 - Avomet

1116 - Microscope box

1118 - Geiger tube

1119 - Inductor

1120 - HP Calculator

1121 - Wavemeter

1122 - Volt Ratio Box

Tinsley 1949,

1123 - Computer cards

1124 - Variable condenser

1125 - Ionosonde camera

1126 - Crystal Calibrator

AWA,

1128 - Engineering flats

1129 - Cambridge Vernier Potentiometer

England

1130 - Robot Camera

1132 - Oscilloscope Movie Camera

1133 - Electron Microscope parts

1134 - Barometer

Short and Mason,

1135 - Variable Resistors (2)

1136 - Electron Microscope parts

1137 - Electric tower clock mechanisms

1138 - Newton's rings apparatus

1139 - Spectrometer

Precision Tool & Instrument Co. ,

1140 - Oscilloscope Camera

1141 - Don Robertson's apparatus

1145 - Blackboard drawing aids

1146 - Boxes of clock parts

1147 - Induction Coil (12V)

1148 - Computer cards

1149 - Venner time switch

1150 - Clock in box

1151 - Laboratory Timer

1152 - Venner time switch

1153 - Venner time switch

1154 - Timer (ionosonde)

1155 - Induction Coil

Apps,

1156 - Projector for glass slides

1157 - Kater's pendulum

1158 - Galvanometer

L&N,

1159 - Standard cells (2)

1160 - Horizontal seismometer

1161 - Spark gap adjustable

1162 - 500mA meter

Victorian Meter Laboratory,

1163 - Newton's cradle toy

1164 - Super 8 cartridge (4)

1165 - Headphones

1166 - Triangular Glass Prisms (2)

1167 - Carbon Coated Slides

1168 - Microscope slides

1169 - Level

1170 - Weights

1171 - Temperature gauge

1172 - Recording tapes

1173 - Stand

1174 - KODAK Photo Slides

Kodak,

1175 - Galvanometer

1176 - Microscope lamps

1177 - Klystron

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