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574 - Relay Socket 12pin

McMurdo,

575 - Pencil Triode 7554

GE, Usa

This pencil triode has planar electrodes with very small spacing between them. This reduces electron transit time between them, thus allowing the triode to operate at the upper end of the UHF band (3 GHz). The valve was mounted with coaxial...

576 - Transmitting Valve MT7A

Marconi,

577 - Transmitting Valve MT7B

OSRAM,

578 - Light bulb with flowers

579 - Micrometer, five inch

L. S. Starrett,

580 - Marine Radar IF Strip

581 - Marine radar Transmit/Receive Unit

582 - Marine radar antenna

583 - Copper Oxide Rectifier

MRC,

584 - Selenium HV Rectifier

585 - Elite 2000R Calculator

UNK,

586 - High current rectifier

Westinghouse,

587 - Weston Galvanometer Model 260

Weston Elect. Inst. Corp. Newark NJ USA, Usa

591 - Calibrating Box, Mats testing

Amsler,

593 - Alarm Buzzer

594 - ECK 24R Quartz Master Clock

Patek, Philippe & Co. ,

595 - Vernier Potentiometer

Cambridge Inst., England

599 - Spectrometer Student

Philip Harris ,

600 - GGS Collimator & GGS Spaces

US Navy, Usa

601 - GGS Mk10 Gyroscopic Gunsight

Naval Ordance, Indiana , Usa

603 - Decade counter tube Z303C

Mullard,

605 - Aristo Scholar Sliderule

Aristo,

606 - Leeds & Northrup Galvanometer

Leeds and Northrup , Usa

607 - Travelling Wave Tube

Siemens,

608 - Valve twin triode 12AT7

Raytheon,

609 - Valve Pentode 6AQ5

AWV,

611 - Valve twin triode 6A57G

RCA,

610 - Valve Pentode 6AU6

AWV,

612 - Valve twin triode 6080/CV2984

UNK,

614 - Valve Pentode 6AM6

Philips,

615 - Valve pentagrid 6BE6

AWV,

616 - Valve full wave rectifier 6X5GT

Briman,

617 - Valve twin triode E88CC

Miniwatt,

618 - Valve pentode EQ80

Amperex,

619 - Valve twin triode 6J6

UNK,

620 - Valve full wave rectifier EZ35

Mullard,

621 - Valve pentode 6BQ5

Philips,

622 - Valve pentode E83F

Siemens,

623 - Valve twin pentode 6Bu8

AWV,

624 - Valve pentode 6BX6

Philips,

625 - Valve pentode EL84

RADYO,

626 - Valve triode pentode 6BM8

UNK,

628 - Valve twin triode E188CC

Telefunken,

629 - Valve regulator 150B2

Mullard,

630 - Valve twin triode ECC83

Mullard,

631 - Valve pentode E81L

Valvo,

632 - Valve thyration PL21

Philips,

633 - Valve pentode EL91/6AM5

Mullard,

634 - Valve regulator VR105MT

Toshiba,

635 - Valve pentode E280F

Telefunken,

636 - Valve twin triode 12AU7A

Toshiba,

637 - Valve pentode twin diode 6BV7

AWV, Australia

This valve was made for domestic radio receivers. It contains a sensitive high slope power pentode to drive a loudspeaker. It was used in place of two valves, the first Audio Frequency (AF) stage and the power output stage. It also contains two...

638 - Valve diode pentode 1S5 + socket/shield

AWV,

Diode Pentode valve used in battery operated valve radios. It had a filamentary cathode, rated at 1.5V 50 mA. Anode 90V. It was the audio detector and first AF amplifier stage.

640 - Valve Gas Triode 2D21

RCA,

641 - Valve recifier R19

Brimar,

642 - Valve pentode 6BY7

Philips,

643 - Valve triode pentode ECF804

UNK,

644 - Thermocouple Ammeter

UNK,

645 - Spherometer

W G PYE, England

Tripod with central threaded leg and circular vernier scale. The spherometer measures the height difference between the tripod legs and the central leg. Knowing this height and the distances from tripod legs to central leg, a standard...

646 - Quadrupole Spectrometer Gun Assembly

UNK,

647 - Direct Current Galvanometer

J. L. William, Australia

648 - Variable Capacitor

Ormond,

649 - Galvanometer, Leeds & Northrup

Leeds and Northrup Co., Philadelphia PA, Usa

Reflecting Mirror Galvanometer.

651 - Octant galvanometer

Leeds and Northrup,

652 - Circular Slide Rule No. 1660

Star, Japan, Japan (circa 1960?)

Japanese circular slide rule of plastic coated aluminium.

654 - Multimeter

TMK, Japan

655 - Multi-range meter

H. Tinsley, England

Sensitive d'Arsonval meter for low voltages and currents. It has a sensitivity of 100,000 Ohms per Volt, and measures in the ranges 12mV to 12V FSD, and 12microAmps to 1.2 Amps FSD.

659 - Micro Barograph

American Paulin System, Usa

This apparatus is designed to measure altitude or atmospheric pressure. It is clockwork operated, and records for 24 hours on graph paper using an inked pen.

660 - Duct Calculator

Torit,

661 - Resistance Box

Leeds and Northrup,

662 - Millisecond stopclock

Venner Electronics,

663 - Decade Resistance Box

Cambridge Inst.,

666 - Reflex Klystron 726A

Western Electric,

667 - Contactor Master Type 1

UNK,

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