Cloud chamber photographs, 1922

Made:
1922 in Cambridge
photographer:
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

452 stereoscopic pairs of cloud chamber photographs and five single photographs of electric discharges (all glass negatives)

Details

Category:
Nuclear Physics
Object Number:
1960-231
Materials:
glass, photographic emulsion, card and paper
Measurements:
single glass negatives (each): 70 x 70 x 3 mm
box: 15 x 95 x 60 mm
type:
photographs and cloud chambers
credit:
University of Cambridge (Observatories)

Parts

Major part of 452 stereoscopic pairs of cloud chamber photographs and five single photographs of electric discharges

Major part of 452 stereoscopic pairs of cloud chamber photographs and five single photographs of electric discharges

Major part of 452 stereoscopic pairs of cloud chamber photographs and five single photographs of electric discharges (all glass negatives), stored in 28 cardboard packs and 21 paper packs, by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Cambridge, England, 1922 and glass plates by the Imperial Dry Plates Co. Ltd, Cricklewood, London, England, 1918-1922

Measurements:
overall (as stored in archive box): 220 mm x 610 mm x 220 mm, 10.01 kg
Materials:
glass , cardboard and paper (fibre product)
Object Number:
1960-231 Pt1
type:
negatives - photographic
Cloud chamber glass negatives

Cloud chamber glass negatives

Cloud chamber glass negatives, 11kg

Measurements:
overall: 11 kg
Object Number:
1960-231 Pt1/1
type:
negatives - photographic
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Part of:
1960-231 Pt1
Cloud chamber glass negatives

Cloud chamber glass negatives

Cloud chamber glass negatives

Object Number:
1960-231 Pt1/3
type:
negatives - photographic
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Part of:
1960-231 Pt1
Cloud chamber photographic negatives, 1922

Cloud chamber photographic negatives, 1922

selection (1 box + 3-5 slides) cloud chamber photographs, five single photographs of electric discharges (all glass negatives)

Measurements:
single glass negatives (each): 70 x 70 x 3 mm
box: 25 x 100 x 75 mm
Materials:
glass , photographic emulsion , card and paper
Object Number:
1960-231 Pt2
type:
negatives and glass negatives
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

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