Discharge Tube
notes: label: Description
content: This glass discharge tube with a paper label that reads “Krypton” was used by William F. Meggers (1888-1966), a physicist with a PhD from Johns Hopkins University who worked at the National Bureau of Standards and became known as “the Dean of American spectroscopists.”
label: Description
content: Ref: William F. Meggers, T. L. de Bruin, and C. J. Humphreys, “THE FIRST SPECTRUM OF KRYPTON,” Bureau of Standards Journal of Research 3 (1929): 129-162.
label: Description
content: “Dr. W. F. Meggers Dies; Spectroscopy Pioneer,” Washington Post (Nov. 21, 1966), p. C2.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.314637.02681.77
label: catalog number
content: 314637.02681.77
label: accession number
content: 314637
objectType: label: Object Name
content: glassware
label: Object Name
content: discharge tube
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 8 1/4 in x 7/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 20.955 cm x 2.2225 cm