General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

METAL COMPONENTS (INCLUDING CAST IRON, MILD STEEL, COPPER & COPPER ALLOYS); PARAFIN WAX SUPPORTS

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

170.0 cm

Width

120.0 cm

Height

102.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Physics

Category

Light & electromagnetic radiation

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

AECL

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

City

Chalk River

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

THIS INSTRUMENT PROBABLY USED C. LATE 1950S- 1960S, AND POSSIBLY LATER.

Canada

DESIGNED AND USED BY DR. BERTRAM N. BROCKHOUSE, CO-WINNER OF 1994 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS FOR HIS PIONEERING WORK IN NEUTRON SCATTERING EXPERIMENTS DURING THE 1950S. DR. BROCKHOUSE CONDUCTED HIS RESEARCH AT THE AECL LABS. (1950-61) AND AT MCMASTER UNIVERSITY, HAMILTON ON WHERE HE WAS PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS (1962-84).

Function

USED TO MEASURE THE MOTIONS OF ATOMS.

Technical

BROCKHOUSE'S ORIGINAL C5 TRIPLE-AXIS SPECTROMETER WAS INSTALLED AT AECL'S NRU REACTOR IN 1958. IN 1959 BROCKHOUSE DISCOVERED THE CONSTANT Q (CONSTANT MOMENTUM TRANSFER) METHOD OF MAKING MEASUREMENTS. BY CHANGING VARIOUS SPECTROMETER ANGLES, THE MAGNITUDE & DIRECTIONS OF THE MOMENTUM TRANSFER WOULD REMAIN THE SAME AT EACH POINT OF THE ENERGY TRANSFER.THE COMBINATION OF THE TRIPLE AXIS SPECTROMETER & THE CONSTANT Q PROCESS REVOLUTIONIZED STUDY OF CONDENSED MATTER SCIENCE. THIS SPECTROMETER EMBODIES MODIFICATIONS MADE THROUGHOUT BROCKHOUSE'S CAREER AT AECL. (1950-61)

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Sign displayed with spectrometer reads " SLOWLY MOVING/ equipment/ Do Not Touch/ or TAKE SWIPES ". Finely graduated scale & micrometer on rotating base. Ther handwritten notes, measurements etc. appear on spectrometer. " SLO-SYN " driving motor labelled.

Missing

SPECIFIC MISSING PARTS UNKNOWN. From CA of 02/22/2002 by Matthew Bruce: No - appears complete

Finish

Unknown

Decoration

N/A