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Title
Oscillograph for photographing electrons, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued
1928
Publication Information
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information
US
Description
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
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
0460
uclamss_1429_0460
ark:/21198/zz002d9r0q
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Scientific equipment--California--Pasadena
Science
Education
Cameras
Electronic apparatus & appliances
California Institute of Technology
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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