Whirlwind Electrostatic Storage Tube
date: label: date made
content: 1948-1952
name: label: maker
content: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
notes: label: Description
content: This is a special display model of an early Whirlwind memory units (circa 1948-52). The Electricity collections contain one of the actual working tubes, but this ones shows the mosaic of beryllium spots with the double layer of wire mesh cut away. There are high and low energy electron guns used to charge the mosaic. Related photographs are presently in the divisional accession file.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CI.333896
label: accession number
content: 304346
label: catalog number
content: 333896
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Component
label: Object Name
content: component, mainframe computer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15.5 cm x 59 cm x 27 cm; 6 3/32 in x 23 7/32 in x 10 5/8 in