Westinghouse Electric Corporation Vacuum Tube

1935/1980

Title
Westinghouse Electric Corporation Vacuum Tube
Creator
unknown
Identifier
MSP285.B032.F24.I04
Description
Description of the photograph reads, “This photograph shows a section of the 40-foot vacuum tube in the Westinghouse atom-smasher which has an outside diameter of 17 inches and is one of the largest tubes of its kind in the world. It can be exhausted so completely that it contains only one seven-hundred-and-sixty-millionths as many air molecules as are in the same volume of normal atmosphere.”
Subject
Westinghouse Electric Corporation (Forest Hills, Pa.).Particle Accelerator.
Vacuum-tubes--Pennsylvania--Forest Hills.
Source
Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Collection
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Rights Information
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