Discharge Tube
notes: label: Description
content: This glass discharge tube marked "Kr" (for 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.314637.02681.13
label: catalog number
content: 314637.02681.13
label: accession number
content: 314637
objectType: label: Object Name
content: glassware
label: Object Name
content: discharge tube
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 6 7/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 3.4925 cm x 17.4625 cm x 4.445 cm