Wilson expansion apparatus, a cloud chamber

Made:: 1912-1913

inventor:: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

maker:: The Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Limited

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Wilson expansion apparatus, a cloud chamber, invented by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, and made by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Co. Ltd., Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, 1912-1913

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Wilson cloud chamber

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Category:: Nuclear Physics

Object Number:: 1981-2175

Materials:: brass (copper, zinc alloy), complete, glass, mahogany (wood), metal (unknown), rubber (unidentified) and zinc (metal)

credit:: University College London

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