Title
Cryotron assembly 30Catalog Number
102807182Type
Physical ObjectDescription
Object is a slim metal tube. At the top small copper wires enter the tube. At the bottom is a tube 9.5 inches long and 0.375 in diameter, wrapped in a lot of very fine copper wire.This object is part of a collection of superconducting electronics devices called “cryotrons" that were created and used by Dudley Buck at MIT in the 1950s.
Date
circa 1955Place Manufactured
Cambridge, MA, USAIdentifying Numbers
| Other number | 30 | Post-it on donor packaging |
Dimensions
overall: 47 in x 1 1/8 in x 1/2 inCredit
Gift of Douglas J. BuckLot Number
X9386.2021
