Traveling wave tube
1936
- Title
- Traveling wave tube
- Collection
- Caltech Photographs
- Series
- Scientific Instrument Photographs
- Dates
- 1936
- Extents
- 1 photographs (negative)
- Abstract
- This item is a long, thin glass tube with a larger cylindrical end. The thin part contains what looks like a coiled spring. The spring is attached to a copper base and some wires in the thicker end. Original wrapping labeled by Mendenhall: “Traveling wave tube/J.R. Pierce ’33/R. Kompner.”