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Cloud chamber used by Rochester and Butler for the first photographs of "strange (nu) particles", 1945-1947

Cloud chamber used by Rochester and Butler for the first photographs of "strange (nu) particles", 1945-1947

1945-1947
Wilson Cloud Chamber

Wilson Cloud Chamber

circa 1965
Cloud chamber or 'ray-track apparatus'

Cloud chamber or 'ray-track apparatus'

1955
Wilson-type expension cloud chamber with intergral lamp

Wilson-type expension cloud chamber with intergral lamp

1962-1970
Control mechanism in aluminium casting, for cloud chamber used by Rochester and Butler

Control mechanism in aluminium casting, for cloud chamber used by Rochester and Butler

1945-1947
Control mechanism on aluminium plate, for cloud chamber used by Rochester and Butler

Control mechanism on aluminium plate, for cloud chamber used by Rochester and Butler

1945-1947
Model of cloud chamber magnet presented to Prof. P.M.S. Blackett, 1934

Model of cloud chamber magnet presented to Prof. P.M.S. Blackett, 1934

1957
Model of cloud chamber magnet presented to Prof. P.M.S. Blackett, 1934

Model of cloud chamber magnet presented to Prof. P.M.S. Blackett, 1934

1957
Wilson-type expension cloud Chamber by Griffin & George Ltd.

Wilson-type expension cloud Chamber by Griffin & George Ltd.

1954-1974
Wilson cloud chamber by Griffin and George Ltd.

Wilson cloud chamber by Griffin and George Ltd.

1964-1983
Complete diffusion cloud chamber, for making visible the tracks of cosmic ray particles, unsigned, supplied by De La Rue Frigistor Limited, Langley/Bucks, 1968

Complete diffusion cloud chamber

circa 1967
Cloud chamber used by Rochester and Butler for first photographs of "strange (nu) particles, 1945-1947

Cloud chamber used by Rochester and Butler for first photographs of "strange (nu) particles, 1945-1947

1945-1947
High pressure hydrogen magnet Wilson Cloud Chamber, approximately 480mm high and 520mm diameter, weight approximately 300Kg. Used by Basil Rose to show that Spectrum of Neutrons from the Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly (Zeta) was not consistent with neutrons from a thermonuclear reaction, c. 1957-1958. (Note: ZETA is sometimes incorrectly expanded as Zero Energy Thermal Apparatus).

High pressure hydrogen magnet Wilson Cloud Chamber

1955-1960
Working mechanism of diffusion cloud chamber, for making visible the tracks of cosmic ray particles, unsigned, supplied by De La Rue Frigistor Limited, Langley/Bucks, 1968. Consists of chamber, various electrical relays, flow valves and controls, various transformers and control box

cloud chamber mechanism

1968
Part of diffusion cloud chamber, for making visible the tracks of cosmic ray particles

Part of diffusion cloud chamber

Tank for diffusion cloud chamber, for making visible the tracks of cosmic ray particles

Tank for diffusion cloud chamber