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LicenseFirst sealed-off travelling wave tube, made by Rudolf Kompfner
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
First sealed-off travelling wave tube, made by Rudolf Kompfner
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
First sealed-off travelling wave tube, made by Rudolf Kompfner
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
First sealed-off travelling wave tube, made by Rudolf Kompfner
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
First sealed-off travelling wave tube, made by Rudolf Kompfner
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
First sealed-off travelling wave tube, made by Rudolf Kompfner, England, 1945-1946.
Rudolph Kompfner, an Austrian-born physicist who emigrated to Britain in 1933, invented the travelling wave tube during 1942 at Birmingham University, and subsequently developed it at Clarendon Laboratories, Oxford, and with J R Pierce at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. The first practical application of travelling wave tubes was in terminal and repeater stations which relayed BBC television programmes between Manchester and Edinburgh. A travelling wave tube was used on board the Telstar satellite, launched in 1963, transmitting the first television pictures across the Atlantic through space.
Details
- Category:
- Electronic Components
- Object Number:
- 1952-369
- Materials:
- plastic (unidentified), copper (alloy) and glass
- Measurements:
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widest point: 860 mm 40 mm, .241 kg
narrowest point: 860 mm 15 mm,
- type:
- thermionic valve
- credit:
- Donated by K. Kompfner
