Radiometer used to illustrate Sir William Crookes' researches

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Radiometer used to illustrate Sir William Crookes' researches
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Radiometer used to illustrate Sir William Crookes' researches on the radiation of heat in high vacua: apparatus in which the source of heat is a platinum wire, 1872-79.

Details

Category:
Heat
Object Number:
1888-166/30
Materials:
glass, mica, aluminium (metal), metal (unknown) and platinum (metal)
Measurements:
tube: 170 mm x x , 60 mm, .04kg
type:
radiometer (crookes' type) and laboratory equipment (physics)
credit:
Sir William Crookes