Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. 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.” Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California Institute of Technology, Camera
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b&w nitrate negative
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0460 uclamss_1429_0460 ark:/21198/zz002d9r0q
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Subject
Electronic apparatus & appliances Science Scientific equipment--California--Pasadena Cameras Education California Institute of Technology
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