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- Robert Hawthorne Slide Rule and Manual

John Cail, Newcastle on Tyne, England (1841)

This slide rule has been in the present owner's family since it was brought to Australia in 1851. It comprises a two foot folding boxwood rule with a brass hinge, marked in inches and provided with tables of useful constants. There is as well a...

1440 - Box of glass and paper scales

1441 - Unicam SP600 Series 2 Spectrophotometer

Unicam,

1442 - Short & Mason Barometer box

1443 - Gas Meter

1444 - Microscope slide preparation device

1445 - Brass seconds pendulum

1447 - Binary divider for counting cosmic rays

University of Tasmania ,

1448 - Cable samples

1449 - Ionospheric RF amplifier

UQ Physics Electrical Workshop,

1450 - Bell Jar

Unknown,

1451 - Bell jar

1452 - Probability set

Invicta Plastics Ltd, Oadby, Leicester, England,

1453 - 4 boxes of valve computer modules

1454 - Kymograph

1455 - Deaccessioned Jun 2016

1457 - Movikon 8 movie camera

Carl Zeiss,

1459 - 250V FS voltmeter (panel)

Engineering Supply Co. of Australia Ltd., Brisbane (ESCA), Australia

Voltmeter to 250 Volts DC for industrial use.

1460 - Weston Ammeter 5AFSD

Weston,

1461 - Tall glass dome 500mmH x 210D

1462 - Tall glass dome 500mmH x 210D

1463 - Uranium ore

Australia

1464 - Large round tripod

1465 - Stack of 3-legged stands (6 large, 2 smaller)

1467 - Tide gauge recorder

1468 - Box of glass plate photographs from Photography Section

Australia

Glass plate slides found in the ruins of the old Photography Section in the basement of the Parnell Building before it was refurbished to make laboratories.

1470 - RRB Monthly Ionosphere Predictions

Brisbane 1948, Australia

1471 - Jena review 50s & 60s

1472 - Box of radio valves (c40)

Various,

1473 - Ionosphere data (Webster)

1474 - Ionosphere data (Webster)

1476 - Microbarograph log

1479 - Bribie Island diagram mounted on chipboard

1480 - Bribie Interferometer recording on clipboard

1481 - Acu - Math slide rule No 150

Acu - Math,

1484 - Box of electronic instrument manuals

1485 - Hand held computer X - 07

Canon, Usa

1487 - 3 bulb discharge tube

1489 - Easel for blackboard

1490 - Blackboard

1492 - Assorted plans (incl. Bribie and tiltmeter)

UQ Physics Workshop, Australia

1493 - Photo cells

1495 - Grating 15000 lpi

1496 - Grating 15000 lpi

UNKNOWN,

1497 - Box of radiation detectors

1498 - Leather case for PLUQ E 108 aneroid barometer

1502 - Assorted optical junk

1503 - Mains cables and adaptors, plugboard

1504 - Assorted old cables and knobs

1499 - Aneroid altimeter

Wallace & Tiernan,

1500 - CIC stand with 5 tripods

Cambridge Instument Co., England

1501 - Cathetometer graduated scale bar

1507 - Arm for Webster & Robertson Gold Leaf Electroscope

1508 - Gallenkamp balance (smaller)

LP,

1509 - Masses for Gallenkamp balance

1510 - Calcite model

1512 - Lighthouse Triode EC157 (see 1308)

Philips,

269 - Geiger Tube

20th Century Electronics, England

Glass tube filled with vapour at low pressure. A cathode along the tube axis and a cylindrical copper gauze anode have a voltage of 1100 Volts between them. High speed electrons passing through the tube ionise the vapour and initiate a momentary...

270 - Geiger Tube 18504

Philips, Holland

A voltage of around 1000 Volts is applied between a coaxial rod and the case. The passage of a beta or gamma ray through the end Mica window causes the gas to conduct and produce an electrical pulse. The discharge is self-quenching. Geiger tubes...

1518 - Spring balance

Salter,

The portable scales are normally hung vertically, with a ring at one end. A ring at the other end allows a hook to be inserted for weighing eg an honest fisherman's catch. It will weigh to 3 kg. Inside is a spring that extends linearly with the...

1519 - Scale rule

Faber-Castell,

1520 - AC test set

Cambridge Instrument Co.,

1521 - Potentiometer Type 44228

Cambridge Instrument Co.,

1522 - Palec VTVM Model TV-M

Palec,

1524 - Bombsight motor drive assembly

Norden,

1525 - Selsyn Motor

The Australian General Electric Co.,

1526 - 1.5V F cell

Eveready, Australia

The F cell is a Zinc Carbon primary dry cell with a nominal voltage of 1.5 Volts. This was the largest of the smaller size 1.5 volt cells made. Later four of them were combined into lantern batteries for use with a 6 Volt incandescent lamp.

1529 - TV Horizontal Output Transformer

Philips?, Australia

This is a ferrite transformer that generates a suitable waveform to drive the horizontal yoke on the neck of a black and white TV picture tube. It operates at 15625 Hz. Driven by a power valve, it also generates an EHT voltage of about 28kV, which...

1530 - Wirewound Potentiometer 2500 Ohms

Colvern,

1532 - Radio valve double diode 5AR4

CEI,

This is a full-wave rectifier valve, used in domestic Hi-fi amplifiers.

1533 - Valve Double Diode 5R4GBY

Mullard, Usa

This valve is used in power supplies that supply voltages higher than are used with most electronic equipment, up to 1200 Volts.

1534 - Valve Triode Pentode ECL86/6GW8

Philips,

This valve was designed for use as an audio pre-amplifier and audio output valve for use in audio amplifiers and black and white TV sets. It provides up to 4 Watts single-ended, and 14 Watts push-pull.

1535 - Valve Triode Pentode 6GV8

AWV Co. P/L, Australia

The triode was designed for use as a sync amplifier, and the pentode as a wide-band video amplifier in black and white TV receivers.

1536 - Valve triode pentode 6KV8

AWV Co. P/L, Australia

The triode was used as a sync separator or AF amplifier, and the pentode as a wide-band video amplifier in Black and white TV receivers.

1537 - Valve Diode 1X2B

Philips, Japan

This was an EHT half-wave rectifier used in black and white TV receivers.
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