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Scrapbook [manuscript], between 1927 and 1939?]

Catalog Data

Author:
Brasch, Arno d. 1963  Search this
Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (Germany)  Search this
Physical description:
1 v. ([25] leaves, 46 p. in various pagings) : ill., photos. ; 28 x 34 cm
Type:
Manuscripts
Date:
1927
1939
Notes:
Photographs mostly signed: AEG [i.e. Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft]
Physicist. Born ca. 1910 in Berlin; worked with Dr. Friedrich Lange in Berlin, under contract with the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft; emigrated to the U.S. in the mid-1930s.
Summary:
Typescript captions, b&w photographs, and diagrams mounted on the leaves of a photograph album, documenting various physics and electrical experiments in which Brasch participated. Includes material on high voltage experiments conducted at Monte Generoso, Italy in 1927, and on the testing of laminated discharge tubes and cathode rays. Six reprinted articles by Brasch and others have been inserted at end of volume.
Topic:
Electricity--Experiments  Search this
Electricity in medicine  Search this
Cathode rays  Search this
Call number:
MSS 1670 B
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_457877