Oscillograph for photographing electrons, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1928
Item Overview
- Title
- Oscillograph for photographing electrons, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1928
- Date Created
- 1928
- Date
- 1928
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Oscillograph mounted on wheeled cart, with dials and switches at center and conical device at top, with curved tube leading to hole in panel at left, in room with other equpiment in background
A similar photograph appears with the article “Caltech Acquires ‘Ossie,’ Oscillograph to Photograph Atoms at Rate of 100,000,000 Per Second Unique Device.” Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 1928. “… known to well-informed electrical engineers as a cold cathode ray oscillograph which, in unscientific language, is a giant camera that records the antics of the electron particles composing an electric current. …” Caption reads: “Camera that Outspeeds Thought Snaps Atom. Ossie and His Keeper. C.D. Hayward, instructor in electrical engineering and research student at California Institute of Technology, with camera for photographing electrons.”
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- California Institute of Technology
- Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Electronic apparatus & appliances
Science
Scientific equipment--California--Pasadena
Cameras
Education
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
-
0460
uclamss_1429_0460 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002d9r0q
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .