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- OBJECT TYPE
- WOLLASTON
- DATE
- 1945–1948
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1986.0723.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Cohn, Sigmund & Co.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- New York, New York, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 3
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- .1-.3: WIRE: PLATINUM & SILVER/ SYNTHETIC SPOOL/ PAPER LABELS/ CARDSTOCK TUBE
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- 6.5 cm
- Height
- 10.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Communications
- Category
- Radar
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Cohn
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- New York
- City
- New York
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- 1940'S
- Canada
-
USED IN EARLY RADAR WORK AT NRC - Function
-
USED BY THE NRC TO MAKE BOLOMETERS BUT LATER REPLACED BY 'LITTELFUSE'. - Technical
-
TYPE SAMPLE OF VERY FINE WIRE ENCASED IN AN OUTER WIRE OF ANOTHER MATERIAL - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- HANDWRITTEN ON STORAGE TUBE: 'Wollaston/ Wire/ very thin/ platinum wire/ is the inner core/ for a much thicker/ silver wire./ Used in early days/ of Radar at the/ R.F.S. of NRC for/ making bolometers./ Later it was found/ that the commercially/ available "Littelfuse"/ was identical and/ became used for a/ while./ A.E.C./ May 1986'/.1-.3: ON BAND 'SIGMUND COHN & CO./ 44 GOLDSTREET/ NEW YORK 7, N.Y.'/ IMPRESSED IN SPOOL: 'SIGMUND COHN CORP. NEW YORK'/ * [FOR LABEL INFORMATION WHICH VARIES WITH EACH SPOOL SEE SUPP. INFO. FILE] *
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- .1-.3: RED SPOOLS/ BLUE LABELS WITH BLUE PRINTING & WHITELABELS WITH BLACK PRINTING
- Decoration
- N/A
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Cohn, Sigmund & Co., Wire, between 1945–1948, Artifact no. 1986.0723, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1986.0723.001/
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