Items taken from drawer (see photo No 26) including three powder cameras and a gas tube

Items taken from drawer (see photo No 26) including three powder cameras and a gas tube, from a collection relating to the X-ray crystallography research carried out by Dame Kathleen Lonsdale at University College London.

Details

Category:
Experimental Chemistry
Object Number:
1993-421/38
type:
cameras
credit:
Gift of University College London, in memory of Dame Kathleen Lonsdale

Parts

Two Complete Powder X-Ray Cameras. One Small

Two Complete Powder X-Ray Cameras. One Small

Two complete powder X-ray cameras. One small, one large c.1920s-1930s. Part of group of items taken from drawer (see photo No 26), from a collection relating to the X-ray crystallography research carried out by Dame Kathleen Lonsdale at University College London.

Object Number:
1993-421/38/1
type:
x-ray camera
Powder X-Ray Cameras. One Small

Powder X-Ray Cameras. One Small

A complete x-ray camera. Part of group of items taken from drawer (see photo No 26), from a collection relating to the X-ray crystallography research carried out by Dame Kathleen Lonsdale at University College London. The camera is round, made of metal with three legs, these are adjustable. There is also a spring attached to one side of the bottom. The top has three holes around the edges.

Object Number:
1993-421/38/1/1
type:
x-ray camera
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Part of:
1993-421/38/1
Powder X-Ray Cameras. One Small

Powder X-Ray Cameras. One Small

A complete x-ray camera. Part of group of items taken from drawer (see photo No 26), from a collection relating to the X-ray crystallography research carried out by Dame Kathleen Lonsdale at University College London. The camera is round, made of metal with three legs, these are adjustable. There is also three adjustable nozzles on the top and a central tube protruding from the top.

Object Number:
1993-421/38/1/2
type:
x-ray camera
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Part of:
1993-421/38/1
Four targets of demountable X-ray tubes. Part of group of items taken from drawer (see photo No 26)

Four targets of demountable X-ray tubes. Part of group of items taken from drawer (see photo No 26)

Four targets of demountable X-ray tubes. Part of group of items taken from drawer (see photo No 26), from a collection relating to the X-ray crystallography research carried out by Dame Kathleen Lonsdale at University College London.

Object Number:
1993-421/38/2
type:
x-ray tube
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Small homemade camera

Small homemade camera

One very small homemade camera c1920s. Part of group of items taken from drawer (see photo No 26), from a collection relating to the X-ray crystallography research carried out by Dame Kathleen Lonsdale at University College London.

Object Number:
1993-421/38/3
type:
cameras
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Two Metropolitan Vickers X-ray cameras with strip for film holder. Early 1940s

Two Metropolitan Vickers X-ray cameras with strip for film holder. Early 1940s

Two Metropolitan Vickers X-ray cameras with strip for film holder. Early 1940s, had arm with X-ray. Both could have gone on same tube, one on each side. Part of group of items taken from drawer (see photo No 26), from a collection relating to the X-ray crystallography research carried out by Dame Kathleen Lonsdale at University College London.

Object Number:
1993-421/38/4
type:
cameras
Metropolitan Vickers X-ray camera

Metropolitan Vickers X-ray camera

Metropolitan Vickers X-ray cameras with strip for film holder. Early 1940s, had arm with X-ray. Part of group of items taken from drawer (see photo No 26), from a collection relating to the X-ray crystallography research carried out by Dame Kathleen Lonsdale at University College London. This has three adjustable legs attached to a metal frame which the component parts can be moved on. There is a disk like element on top.

Object Number:
1993-421/38/4/1
type:
camera
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Part of:
1993-421/38/4
Metropolitan Vickers X-ray camera

Metropolitan Vickers X-ray camera

Metropolitan Vickers X-ray cameras with strip for film holder. Early 1940s, had arm with X-ray. Part of group of items taken from drawer (see photo No 26), from a collection relating to the X-ray crystallography research carried out by Dame Kathleen Lonsdale at University College London. This has three adjustable legs attached to a metal frame which the component parts can be moved on. There is a drum like element on top.

Object Number:
1993-421/38/4/2
type:
camera
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Part of:
1993-421/38/4
Demountable Phillips X ray tube

Demountable Phillips X ray tube

One demountable Phillips X ray tube, labelled Faraday Res (possibly Faraday Research unit at the Royal Institution). Part of group of items taken from drawer (see photo No 26), from a collection relating to the X-ray crystallography research carried out by Dame Kathleen Lonsdale at University College London.

Object Number:
1993-421/38/5
type:
tube
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
One camera shield

One camera shield

One camera shield, without a hole. Part of group of items taken from drawer (see photo No 26), from a collection relating to the X-ray crystallography research carried out by Dame Kathleen Lonsdale at University College London.

Object Number:
1993-421/38/6
type:
camera shield
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
One camera

One camera

One camera, minus case and lid, with black paper inside, film would be wound around the outside. Part of group of items taken from drawer (see photo No 26), from a collection relating to the X-ray crystallography research carried out by Dame Kathleen Lonsdale at University College London.

Object Number:
1993-421/38/7
type:
cameras
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Brown cylinder/tube

Brown cylinder/tube

Brown cylinder/tube, with small holes encircling one end of cylinder and collar at other end. Part of group of items taken from drawer (see photo No 26), from a collection relating to the X-ray crystallography research carried out by Dame Kathleen Lonsdale at University College London.

Object Number:
1993-421/38/8
type:
laboratory apparatus
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum