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Atomizer-burner, acetylene
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photograph: negative
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Description
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Two identical pieces. Designed for use with Beckman Flame Photometry attachment to the DU spectrophotometer. Hand-written on boxes “Used 1954” and “Used 1956.” Both with original instructions and packing.
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Title
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Balance, electric, Model no. 963
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Format
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photograph: negative
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Date
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1909
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Description
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Accompanying the balance are a set of weights and other accessories in a wooden box. Original “Certificate of Constant” on file. For further description, see “Scientific Instruments Ancient and Modern.” Mfg: Kelvin and James White, Ltd.
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Thermometer, Beckman
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Format
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photograph: negative
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Date
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10947
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Description
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Why this is called a Beckman thermometer is not known. As far as we know it has nothing to do with Arnold O. Beckman. Scale is 0-5c degrees in 1/100s of a degree centigrade. There is an overrange indication to 100 degrees C. Mfg: Brooklyn Thermometer Co. located in either Middletown, NY or Cambridge, MA.
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Galvanometer, deflection
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Format
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photograph: negative
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Description
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Two stationary inner coils and one revolving outer coil. No. manufacturer’s mark, but possibly made in the CIT Physics Shop.
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Title
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AIR-4 fuze
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Format
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photograph: negative
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Description
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For fast-burning 4.5″ barrage rocket. About 3.7″ long, steel and brass with Bakelite propeller (loose). 400 made for testing but the rocket for which it was intended was never standardized.
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Title
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Security stopwatch
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Format
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photograph: print
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Description
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One jewel analog Swiss security stopwatch.
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Precision protractor
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Format
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photograph: print
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Description
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Keuffel and Esser precision brass three-arm protractor. Model 3778. Housed in oak box.
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Galvanometer, DC moving coil, reflecting, type P
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Format
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photograph: negative
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Description
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Serial no. 208861. According to the Leeds and Northrup catalog ED 1936, this is a DC moving coil, reflecting galvanometer, type P. This design is for wall-mounting and could be used as part of a suggested laboratory lamp and scale device. Mfg: Leeds and Northrup Co., Philadelphia, PA.
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Title
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Ion chamber (B)
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Format
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photograph: negative
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Description
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Nothing is known of this ion chamber, except that it closely resembles ST-CR-06. Mfg. CIT Physics Shop.
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Sector, brass
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Format
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photograph: negative
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Description
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Galileo is credited with having invented the instrument, which is also known as a proportional compass. See Galileo’s “Operation of the Geometric and Military Compass”; also “Scientific Instruments Ancient and Modern.” Mfg: Gottfriedt Reiff, Nuremberg, Germany.
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Altimeter
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Format
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photograph: print
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Description
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Paulin System Instruments precision analog altimeter, manufactured in Stockholm.
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Magnetic relay for electronic switching
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Format
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photograph: negative
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Description
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Developed in the 1940s or 1950s for Bell System automatic switching, by R.M. Bozorth (CIT 1922). Mfg. Bell Labs.
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Dissection took kit
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Format
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photograph: negative
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Description
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Mfg. A.S. Aloe Co. (Aloe Scientific Division), St. Louis, MO.
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Quartz ultraviolet lamp, Life-Lite (2 views)
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Format
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photograph: negative
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Description
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Serial no. 4502. Trapezoidal hand-held UV lamp, dark brown plastic housing with cord and cord switch, in black carrying box. Instructions inside box lid. Mfg. Ultra-Violet Home Products, Los Angeles, CA.
