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837 - Infrared Image Conversion Viewer

Photon View,

842 - Dewar Flask on Stand

This round-bottomed glass flask is double-walled, evacuated between the walls ( there is a closed-off exhaust tip at the base of the flask) and the inner surfaces of the walls silvered. Consequently, heat losses are very low, and this flask was...

846 - Crookes' Maltese Cross Tube

Unknown, England

The Maltese Cross Tube, created by William Crookes, demonstrates the flow of electrons in an evacuated vessel, under the influence of a high voltage . The electrons travel in straight lines if no other influence exists, are stopped by the metal...

847 - Crookes Radiometer

The glass envelope contains a poor quality vacuum, hence there is residual gas heated by incident radiation. The metal vane surfaces are heated by radiation and interact with the gas imparting motion to the vanes. The vanes are NOT driven by...

884 - Lead-Acid Battery Cell Tester

Master Instruments Pty Ltd, Australia

This is an obsolete instrument, once used to measure the voltage of  a lead-acid cell under load. The prongs were applied to a cell of a vehicle battery, and the resistor across the prongs simulated the current load of an electric starter...

908 - 2 kV Oscillator Coil

Aegis Manufacturing Company Pty Ltd,

920 - Incandescent Lamp 115V

Royal Ediswan, England

922 - Vacuum Thermocouple 50 mA

Cambridge Instrument Co., England

957 - Taffrail Ship Log

Thomas Walker & Son Ltd, England

988 - Bradleyohm Rheostat

Bradley,

1002 - Galitzin Seismograph

Sprengnether Instruments,

1014 - Pressure Cell Attachment

Amsler,

1042 - Electric Heating Element

1049 - RF plugs, attenuators and adaptors

General Radio, Usa

1071 - Standard Test Gauge

Budenberg Gauge Co. Ltd,

1072 - Vibro-meg Megger Portable Tester

Paton Electrical Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia

This is an Australian version of the Megger designed by Evershed & Vignoles. It is battery operated. It has a mechanical vibrator and transformer to generate a DC high voltage. It tests equipment, motors and electric cables for continuity...

1094 - Glass Bulbs to Weigh Gas

1101 - Decade Counter (?)

1107 - Globes,Terrestrial, Celestial and Lunar

1115 - Semiconductor Devices

1117 - Arnold Reimann Relics

1131 - Demonstration Ammeter

1142 - Alpha ray Electroscope

1143 - Spare Belts for van de Graaff Generator

1144 - 1 GHz Cavity Frequency Meter

1208 - Pair of Bar Magnets with Keepers

1209 - Solid State Detectors for Ionizing Radiation

Simtec,

1220 - Platinum Resistance Thermometer (?)

1246 - KARTEMP Thermometer

1252 - Electrostatic Prime Conductor

Griffin, England

1261 - Long Glass Sample Cells

1267 - Compucorp 342 Statistician Calculator

Compucorp,

1268 - Loudspeaker for AWA Receiver

1269 - Variable Resistor 5 A, 137 ohm

W.G. Pye, Cambridge, England

1277 - Box for Stopwatch

Venner Time Switches,

1279 - Circuit Boards from 1960s

Texas Instruments, Usa

1280 - Pocket Fibre Electrometer

This instrument has a window at one end to allow in radiation, mainly beta (electrons), and an eyepiece at the other end. The electrons charge a metal fibre inside the instrument. The fibre deflects proportionally to the charge, and...

1281 - Igranic Capacitor 500 pF with Microvernier Dial

1292 - Demonstration Moving Iron (2) and Moving Coil (1) Meters

1303 - Model of Naso-Pharynx

1307 - Image Orthicon Tube 9564

EMI, England

1325 - Weston Normal Cell No L-375449

Cambridge Instrument Co., London,

1347 - Covers (2) for Mettler Balance

1368 - Lynn Hastie Photographs

1369 - Variable Phase Shifter for x-Band Microvaves

1373 - Electro-optic Modulator

Coherent,

248 - Barretter VL12

Pintsch, Germany, Germany

A barreter is a nonlinear resistance that relies on the increase of resistance of a wire when it is heated to act as a current limiter.

489 - Valve, Power Pentode 6DQ5

General Electric, Usa (ca 1960)

Horizontal Sweep Tube for Black and White TV Receivers.

492 - Valve Pentode 6AC7/1852

RCA, Usa

916 - Valve 9004 UHF Diode

RCA, Usa (ca 1940)

UHF Diode used in WW II radio equipment.

917 - Valve 6620 Regulator

Unknown, England

Regulator valve, maintains constant 85V to attached circuits.

923 - Thermocouple 500mA

AWA, Australia (ca 1942)

Thermocouple used in WWII radios to indicate antenna current flowing.

1022 - Box of spring balances

Salter,

Three spring 'balances' made by Salter 1) 100 gm letter balance 2) 4 lb produce balance 3) 250 gm scientific spring balance

1260 - Conductivity of Liquids Apparatus

- Measuring Machine M1616

UQ Mechanical Engineering Department,

1353 - Box of Diodes, Arrestors, Lamps

1394 - Display of 'Modern' Valves (Dissected)

1398 - Conductivity Bridge Type MC1 Mk III

Electronic Switchgear,

1405 - Disk Operating System DOS v3.20 on 51/2" Diskette

IBM (International Business Machines),

1409 - Torsion Balance

W.G. Pye, Cambridge, England

1411 - Oscilloscope Plugin Timebase Type 3B4

Tektronix,

1446 - School Beam Balance

1456 - Card Index of Radiological References

D.F. Robertson?,

1458 - Galilean Binoculars

unknown, (around 1900?)

Convex objective lenses, concavo eyepiece lenses, straight through viewing, with limited field of view.

1475 - Weather Data for 1974

1477 - Monthly Ionospheric Tabulations Brisbane 1943

CSIR Radio Research Board,

1478 - Monthly Ionospheric Tabulations Brisbane 1946

CSIR Radio Research Board,

1482 - Notes, ionospheric Data, Examination Papers

I. jenkinson (?),

1483 - Circuit Diagrams from Bribie Island Research Station

1488 - Porthole Lens (?)

1494 - Chain Mail Diathermy Electrode

1506 - Scale for Reflecting Galvanometer

W.G. Pye, Cambridge,

1511 - Demonstration Ammeter with Many Shunts

Shimadzu,

1514 - Tetrode Valve 4-250

Eimac,

with socket, chimney and dissipator

1515 - Vernier Caliper

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