M0019814: Radium head showing pneumatic tube used for moving radium from storage safe to the head and returning it

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Radium head.

Reproduction of a photograph published in Grimmett, L. G.: "A Five-Gramme Radium Unit, with Pneumatic Transference of Radium", The British journal of radiology, volume 10, issue 110, February 1937

March 1964

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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