Crookes' Radiometer, 1878

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

Made:: 1878 in London

designer:: William Crookes

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Radiometer used to illustrate Sir W. Crookes' researches on the radiation of heat in high vacua: otheoscope (an instrument in which the driving surface is not the glass of the bulb but a disc within the instrument which becomes heated), 1878

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Category:: Heat

Object Number:: 1888-166/40

Materials:: glass, mica, aluminium (metal) and metal (unknown)

Measurements:: tube: 195 mm x x , 67 mm, .04kg

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

credit:: Sir William Crookes

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Crookes' Radiometer, 1878

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