| Title |
Cavendish Laboratory equipment records |
| Reference |
CKFT 31 |
| Covering Dates |
1924–1939 |
| Extent and Medium |
8 files |
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| Content and context |
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This series includes photographs, publicity brochures and correspondence in relation to equipment used at the Cavendish laboratory, Cambridge.
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| Index Terms |
| Scientific Equipment |
| Scientific Research |
| University of Cambridge. Cavendish Laboratory |
| Churchill/CKFT 31 contains: |
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1
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Prints. Several relate to the Cambridge cyclotron and there are some mounted pictures of explosion chamber photographs taken by Dee.
1 file. |
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2
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350kv Transformer. This was used in the Cockcroft-Walton apparatus, and was supplied by Metropolitan-Vickers.
0.25 file. |
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3
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Sphere gap data.
0.25 file. |
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4
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8kv transformer. Used for cloud chamber.
0.25 file. |
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5
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x kv transformer. Used in mass spectrograph.
0.25 file. |
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6
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Voltage regulators. Application not indicated.
1 file. |
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7
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Burch pumps. Cockcroft relied heavily on the low vapours pressure pumping oils used by Burch in his diffusion pump. They were used to evacuate the rectifies column and the accelerating tube of the Cockcroft-Walton apparatus.
2 files. |
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8
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Coils for Wilson chamber.
0.5 file. |
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9
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Milton-volt magnet. This was the analysis magnet used at the earthed end of the accelerating tube of the 2mv philip set errected in the new high tension lab in 1939. It continued in use after the war.
0.5 file. |
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10
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High-voltage laboratory development of apparatus. This file shows the early thoughts of Sir John Cockcroft and Sir Mark Oliphant on a new high voltage accelerating system. It was overtaken by the availability of money from the Austin benefaction which permitted the purchase of two Philips generators.
0.3 file. |
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11
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2 kilowatt motor generator set.
0.3 file. |
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12
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100kv transformers. Main transformer used by Lord Ernest Rutherford and Sir Mark Oliphant in their transmutation apparatus.
0.3 file. |
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13
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Ring magnet for alpha-particle focusing. Apparatus fully described in the literature.
1 file. |
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