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Model, Cockcroft and Walton's laboratory

Made:
1947
Model, Cockcroft and Walton's laboratory

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Model, scale approx 1:8, of Cockcroft and Walton's "atom-splitting" Research Laboratory at Cambridge.

Details

Category:
Nuclear Physics
Object Number:
1947-263
Materials:
wood and metal
Measurements:
overall: 14.3701 x 14.1732 x 20.0787 in.; 365 x 360 x 510 mm
type:
research laboratory and model
credit:
C. A. Mills and Associates

Parts

Model of Cockcroft and Walton's Research Laboratory at Cambridge

Model of Cockcroft and Walton's Research Laboratory at Cambridge

Model, scale approx 1:8, of Cockcroft and Walton's "atom-splitting" Research Laboratory at Cambridge.

Measurements:
overall: 14.3701 x 14.1732 x 20.0787 in.; 365 x 360 x 510 mm
Materials:
wood and metal
Object Number:
1947-263/1
type:
research laboratory and model
Spare cylindrical glass tube for scale model of Cockcroft and Walton's "atom-splitting" Research Laboratory at Cambridge

Spare cylindrical glass tube for scale model of Cockcroft and Walton's "atom-splitting" Research Laboratory at Cambridge

Spare cylindrical glass tube for scale model of Cockcroft and Walton's "atom-splitting" Research Laboratory at Cambridge, unsigned, England, 1947

Measurements:
overall: Width = 950 mm x Diameter = 60 mm, 1.09 kg
Materials:
glass and paper (fibre product)
Object Number:
1947-263/2
type:
component - object and model - representation

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