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Coolidge X-Ray Tube, by General Electric, USA, c. 1940

Inventory Number 14269

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.14269

Item type
Object
Provenance
Used in Department of Chemical Crystallography, Oxford. Transferred from the Department of Chemical Crystallography per. Mr. F. Welch and Prof. H. M. Powell.
Primary inscriptions
Printed on glass "CA-6 / COOLIDGE TUBE / GE / MADE IN U.S.A."
Object type
X-Ray equipment
Dimensions
Diameter: 87mm Height: 78mm Width: 445mm Weight: 1.2kg
Inventory No
14269
Accession Number
1969-30/1

Description

Water-cooled glass tube with copper target and Iron electrodes. Used for crystallographic analysis. With rubber/plastic sheath-type grip. Printed on glass "CA-6 / COOLIDGE TUBE / GE / MADE IN U.S.A." Connection between the two parts of the glass tube is broken. Outer tube is orange with metal components inside. End extends into two poles.

Object has been split into four parts due to breakage:

(1) main glass tube

(2) plastic bag containing broken connection parts

(3) cylindrical tube base with two holes through the centre and blue, circular, paper sticker with "GE" logo

(4) plastic bag containing broken glass from tube.

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