Crookes' Radiometer, 1872-1879

PART OF:: Forty-five radiometers used to illustrate Sir W. Crookes' researches on the radiation of heat in high vacua

Made:: 1872-1879 in London

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Radiometer used to illustrate Sir William Crookes' researches on the radiation of heat in high vacua: contains pith bar with mirror attached in vacuo (blackened end is repelled when flame is brought near), 1872-79.

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Category:: Heat

Object Number:: 1888-166/11

Materials:: glass, bone, ivory, fibre (thread), metal (unknown) and copper (metal)

Measurements:: tube: 500 mm x x , 100 mm, .18kg

type:: radiometer (crookes' type) and laboratory equipment (physics)

credit:: Sir William Crookes

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