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Crookes' Radiometer, 1877
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Radiometer used to illustrate Sir William Crookes' researches on the radiation of heat in high vacua: radiometer with movable mica or metal screen that can be jerked into different positions relative to the vanes, 1877.
Details
- Category:
- Heat
- Object Number:
- 1888-166/34
- Materials:
- glass, mica, aluminium (metal) and metal (unknown)
- Measurements:
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tube: 190 mm x x , 65 mm, .045kg
- credit:
- Sir William Crookes