Oscilloscope
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- OBJECT TYPE
- DUAL TRACE
- DATE
- 1967–1968
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2001.0231.001
- MANUFACTURER
- TEKTRONIX INC.
- MODEL
- 502/104
- LOCATION
- Portland, Oregon, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 900
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL CASING & PARTS/ SYNTHETIC CONTROLS, CRT SCREEN, PARTS/ LEATHER CARRYING HANDLES
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 62.0 cm
- Width
- 29.0 cm
- Height
- 40.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Physics
- Category
- Electronics
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- TEKTRONIX
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Oregon
- City
- Portland
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- LATE 1960'S +
- Canada
-
OSCILLOSCOPE WAS ONE OF KEY ELEMENTS OF LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETER (LBI) THAT CONNECTED ALGONQUIN RADIO TELESCOPE (ONTARIO) WITH DRAQ RADIO TELESCOPE IN PENTICTON,BC, FIRST IN WORLD NOT PHYSICALLY CONNECTED BY WIRES. DEVELOPMENT TEAM, CONSISTING OF NRC & CANADIAN UNIVERSITY SCIENTISTS, WON RUTHERFORD AWARD IN 1972. - Function
-
GENERALLY, INSTRUMENT THAT USES CATHODE RAY TUBE TO DISPLAY FLUCTUATING ELECTRICAL SIGNALS ON SCREEN. THIS EXAMPLE WAS PART OF LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETER WIRELESSLY CONNECTING TWO RADIO TELESCOPES; SIGNALS FROM TELESCOPES APPEARED ON SCREEN & WERE COMBINED & MANIPULATED. - Technical
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THIS HIGH END DUAL-TRACE OSCILLOSCOPE FROM PREMIER MAKERS OF OSCILLOSCOPES OF LATE 1960'S WAS ONE OF TEKTRONIX' MOST SOPHISTICATED INSTRUMENTS, HAVING VERY RAPID RISE TIME, WIDE FREQUENCY RESPONSE & HIGH DEGREE OF STABILITY. IT HAD INTERNAL SQUARE WAVE CALIBRATION FUNCTION, TRIGGERING FUNCTIONS & OPERATED AT 50 MHZ (?). - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- BLACK LETTERING ON FRONT PANEL READS "TYPE 502 DUAL-BEAM OSCILLOSCOPE MOD 104", "SERIAL 900 [INCISED]", "TEKTRONIX, INC., PORTLAND, OREGON U.S.A." & FOR CONTROL FUNCTIONS
- Missing
- POWER CORD/ LIGHT SHIELD FOR CRT
- Finish
- TEXTURED GREEN CASING SIDES, TOP & BACK/ BRUSHED METAL FRONT PANE/ COLOURLESS TRANSPARENT WINDOW/ BLACK & RED KNOBS & SWITCHES
- Decoration
- BLACK TEKTRONIX LOGO ON FRONT PANEL
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TEKTRONIX INC., Oscilloscope, circa 1967–1968, Artifact no. 2001.0231, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2001.0231.001/
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