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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.
Related to 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. …”
Close-up of a portion of oscillograph, with vacuum tube at center and cylindrical device at right
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California Institute of Technology, Camera
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: 0461
uclamss_1429_0461
ark:/21198/zz002d9r17
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Science
Electronic apparatus & appliances
Cameras
Government
Scientific equipment--California--Pasadena
Education
California Institute of Technology
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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