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1354 - Signal Generator

Wayne Kerr,

1355 - VT98 triode radar modulator

Westinghouse,

1356 - Demo triode and Power supply

1357 - Demonstration capacitor display

1358 - High voltage capacitor display

1360 - Lead acid battery (cut away)

 

1361 - Glass plate images of radon use

H. Webster, UQ,

1362 - Electronic component display

1363 - Chemical balance

Paul Bunge, Bamberg , Germany

Analytical beam balance for very small samples. It uses 5mg riders on the beam for fine balance.

1817 - Card Index Equipment Inventory

UQ Physics Department,

Wooden index card cabinet with two drawers containing index cards. One is marked 'Inst'  and contains two alphabetical runs of cards in several different formats, some dated in range 1912 to 1957. The second drawer, marked 'LECTURE EQUIPMENT...

1364 - Box of valves

1365 - Box of lamps including pointolites

1299 - Xenon discharge lamp

Lishio Electric Inc. ,

1366 - Lunar Globe

1367 - CSA IBM Slave Clock

IBM,

1370 - Coherent laser optical components

Coherent ,

1371 - Capacitance box U211

AWA, Australia

1372 - Tripod, wooden, military

1374 - C 1150 Valve Transmitter

English Electric Valve Co. Ltd.,

1375 - Variable capacitor (UQ EE Dept.)

Cambridge Instrument Co., England

1376 - Ionospheric 35mm film records

1377 - Alumina tubes

1378 - Big heating tripod

1818 - Card index for Glass Projection Slides

A large number of index cards in an incorrect drawer. They seem to form an index for the collection of glass projection slides ID 1814. Also a bundle of 35 mm slides.

1379 - Demonstration model motor

1380 - IBM PC Card

IBM,

1381 - 3 IBM PC cards

IBM,

1382 - Multi selection switch

1383 - Computer tape (magnetic)

1384 - Valve computer module EV1357

1385 - Valve computer module EV3557

1386 - Valve computer module EV2257

1387 - Valve computer module EV1957

1388 - Valve computer module EV2057

1389 - Valve computer module EV0457

1390 - Box of slide rules

 

1391 - Centrifuge

Phillips Drucker,

1392 - Slide rule (24")

Keuffel & Esser Co.,

1393 - Glass plate photos of medical cases

1395 - Collection of nixie tubes

1396 - Gas meter

1397 - Phototube amplifier 5240

Kinemetrics, USA, Usa

1399 - EMI scope 4/1 Cathode ray tube

EMI,

1400 - Big old CRT

1401 - Old post deflection acceleration CRT

Mullard,

1402 - TV MINI-SEM Scanning Electron Microscope

International Scientific Instruments,

1403 - Argon ion laser tube

1404 - Railway parcel balance

Salter, England

Balance used by Agricultural Dept, possibly Queensland.

1406 - CRT

1407 - Electronic thermo-hygrograph

Isuzu,

1408 - Glass pressure vessel

1410 - Type 3AI dual-trace amplifier

Teletronix Inc.,

1412 - Electronic Thermo-hygrograph

Isuzu,

1413 - Compound pendulum stimulator

1414 - Box of photocells, phototubes

Devices in this collection of photocells include a Westinghouse Photo-electric cell, a Rank Cintel VA 26 photocell, several photomultipliers, and some Plumbicon television camera tubes. Each uses the photoelectric effect in its operation. The...

1415 - Bell jar for chaotic pendulum

Unknown,

1416 - Frequency standard

Sulzer ,

1417 - T.P.S. Voltage supply 0-25V

T.P.S., Australia

1418 - Weston mV meter Bakelite 1936

Weston, Usa

1419 - Fluxgate magnetometer

Scintrex,

1420 - Balance masses 10/5/2/2 kg

1421 - Globe for ionospheric research

1422 - Isolation Transformer

SafTpak,

1424 - Spectrometer (incomplete)

Becker?,

1425 - Testing gauge 3000 psi

Bundenburg,

1423 - Geoceiver Unit 2

Magnavox,

1426 - Geoceiver Unit 1

Magnavox,

505 - Floating Sundial

Small floating dial in wooden case on loan to museum. Southern hemisphere dial apparently marked out for the lattitude of Melbourne, and exhibiting about 8 degrees of magnetic deviation, also appropriate for that location.

501 - Floating Sundial

unknown,

Floating sundial for southern hemisphere, probably in the lattitude of Hobart.  Missing glass dome and lever to lock card.

1427 - Golay cell detector

Unicam,

1436 - Centrifugal force apparatus

W. G. Pye & Co. Cambridge,

385 - Optical Spectrometer / Goniometer

P.T.I. (Precision Tool and Instrument Co.),

1437 - G.G.S. Recorder Mk 3

1439 - Ultra-thin solar calculator

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