Scientific apparatus collection.
Historical apparatus dating from ancient Egypt to the twentieth century. Includes pieces made at Caltech--for example, portions of Carl Anderson's positron and muon experiments and Robert Millikan's ionization chambers--as well as instruments by Lord Kelvin, The Cambridge and Paul Company, and Otto Wolff.
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907.
California Institute of Technology
Ionization chambers -- Experiments -- History.
Physical instruments -- Collection and preservation.
Physical instruments -- History.
Physical instruments -- Technological innovations.
Physics -- Scientific apparatus and instruments.
Muons -- Experiments -- Instruments.
Positrons -- Experiments -- Instruments.
Radioactivity -- Instruments.
Egypt -- Antiquities.
Scientific apparatus and instruments. aat
Anderson, Carl D. (Carl David), 1905-1991-
Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953.
Wolff, Otto.
Cambridge and Paul Company.
AIP-ICOS
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