This list is provided to make it easier to find the most recently added or updated pages on this site. The latest items are listed at the top.
Title | Description | Date |
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Photocell | A thin-film selenium photo-electric cell (made in June 2006). | December 2009 |
Triode 1 | The first attempt at making a homemade triode. | October 2009 |
Didymium Glasses | The use of didymium glasses for glass working. | October 2009 |
Polariscope | A homemade polariscope for viewing stress in glass. | July 2009 |
Polarization Paradox | The phenomenon of three crossed polarizing filters. | July 2009 |
Filament Lamp C | A lamp with a bulb, but a single part envelope. (With movie.) | July 2009 |
Annealing Oven | A homemade glass annealing oven that doubles as a bakeout oven for vacuum devices | July 2009 |
Cloud Chamber | A very simple expansion cloud chamber. | June 2009 |
Young's Slits | A Single photon interference experiment. At the edge of reality. | May 2009 |
Pump Unions | How to attach a glass tube to a metal vacuum system. | March 2009 |
High Energy Pulser | A demonstration of Lenz's law (and having some fun). | December 2008 |
Glass Tube Cutter | Page added with a homemade hot wire glass tube cutter. | August 2008 |
Movie Clips | All movie clips transferred to You Tube to solve ISP bandwidth issues. | June 2008 |
Bell in Vacuum | Page added with a movie of a bell operating in a vacuum, then letting the air in. | February 2008 |
Feather Drop | Page added with a movie of a feather and a 1 inch ball bearing being dropped in a vacuum. | August 2007 |
A small Tesla Coil | A 300mm high spark-gap Tesla coil. | June 2007 |
Relay and DAC Controller | Page added with a design for controlling up to 8 relays and 8 voltage outputs via an RS232 port. | April 2006 |
Thermionic Diode | Two pages added describing and characterising a home made thermionic diode. | January 2006 |
Luminescence | Page added about luminescent compounds. | October 2005 |
Plasma Experiments - Page 3 | Page added about noble gas filling. | October 2005 |
Museum Instruments - Page 2 | New information added about the Wheatstone bridge. Thanks to Pete Andrews for providing this. | September 2005 |
Plasma Experiments - Page 1 | Explanation of plasma extended and improved. | August 2005 |
Plasma Experiments - Page 2 | Page added with construction details of a discharge tube which requires minimal glass work. | August 2005 |
X-Ray Gallery | Baby House martin added. | July 2005 |
Electrocardiogram | Sound file added. | July 2005 |
X-Ray Equipment | Page added describing the equipment used to produce the images in the X-Ray Gallery. | July 2005 |
Electrocardiogram | Page added about recording the electrical activity of the heart. | June 2005 |
Gamma Radiography | Page added about imaging using 662keV gamma rays. | February 2005 |
Radon 220 | Page added about measuring the half-life of radon 220. | January 2005 |