Prototype Hydrogen Bubble Chamber

Made:
1955-1960
Prototype Hydrogen Bubble Chamber

Creative Commons LicenseThis image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence

License this image for commercial use at Science and Society Picture Library

License

Prototype Hydrogen Bubble Chamber
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Prototype Hydrogen Bubble Chamber, made of glass thickly electroplated with copper, by Thorn EMI Central Research Laboratories Limited, Hayes, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, 1955-1960

Details

Category:
Nuclear Physics
Object Number:
1995-288
Materials:
plastic (unidentified), copper plated, copper (metal), cotton (fibre) and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)
Measurements:
overall (spigot upright): 235 mm x 215 mm x 115 mm, 2kg
type:
bubble chamber
credit:
Imperial College of Science & Technology (Dept. of Physics)

Related Objects

Two diagrams of Cockcroft and Walton's apparatus for the artificial disintegration of the elements by swift protons

Diagrams of Cockcroft and Walton's apparatus
Type IB2 ionisation chamber

Type IB2 ionisation chamber
Electromagnetic pump demonstration, comprising perspex rectangle to contain mercury driven by magnets; mercury carries current. On black base 395mm x 370mm, with metal plate inscribed "Model supplied by UK AEA Instrument development dept., Risley Nuclear Laboratories". Date of manufacture, c.1982.

Electromagnetic pump demonstration
Anticoincidence unit type 1475A

Anticoincidence unit type 1475A
Photograph showing the collision of an alpha-ray with an oxygen atom in a hydrogen-filled expansion chamber

Collision of an alpha-ray with an oxygen atom
Copies of two pioneer cloud-track photographs, (from photos lend by Prof. C.T.R. Wilson) ( see Royal Society's Proceedings, "A", vol.85, plate 9, figs.1.2 1911)

Copies of two pioneer cloud-track photographs