M0015829: Two Geissler discharge tubes for experiments on the effects of cathode rays / M0015830: Early x-ray tube with convex cathode, anti-cathode and anode, c.1897

Date:
1957
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WT/D/1/20/1/141/81
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M0015829: Two Geissler discharge tubes for experiments on the effects of cathode rays / M0015830: Early x-ray tube with convex cathode, anti-cathode and anode, c.1897. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced March 2022: Early x-ray tube, c. 1897. Convex cathode, anti-cathode and anode.
Previous title, replaced March 2022: Discharge tubes for experiments on effects of cathode rays
Previous title, replaced March 2022: Discharge tubes for experiments on effects of cathode rays

Description

Photograph of two Geissler tubes and an early x-ray tube. The items were presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1954 and accessioned in 1956 (accession numbers R150/1956 and R151/1956 (Geissler tubes) and R153/1956 (x-ray tube)). None are held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

1957

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

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Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides entries for the items: accession number R150/1956 and R151/1956 and accession number R150/1956 and R153/1956

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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 2021.

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