Company:The Bell Jar
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Access to moderately good vacuum apparatus can open up a whole new dimension to the amateur However practical information has not been easy to come by In the s and s there was some level of discourse on simple simple vacuum apparatus For those who remember two good examples were C L Stong's Amateur Scientist column in Scientific American Magazine and the amateur oriented pumps kits and plans once offered by the firm of Morris Lee of Buffalo NY Between the two an impressive array of apparatus emerged from the efforts of ambitious basement experimenters There were a variety of gas lasers x-ray tubes potential drop accelerators mass spectrometers simple compound electron microscopes and high altitude chambers to name a few All of these were cobbled together with converted refrigeration compressors single stage diffusion pumps copper glass tubing wax and a lot of ingenuity The staying power of these endeavors
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