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

1957

Cloud chamber or 'ray-track apparatus'

1955

Wilson-type expension cloud chamber with intergral lamp

1962-1970

Wilson Cloud Chamber

circa 1965

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

1954-1974

Cloud chamber used by Rochester and Butler for the 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
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