Charles C. Lauritsen and Robert A. Millikan stand atop the million volt x-ray tube
- Title
- Charles C. Lauritsen and Robert A. Millikan stand atop the million volt x-ray tube
- Collection
- Caltech Images Collection
- Series
- Academic Divisions and Departments
- Sub-Series
- Physics
- Identifier
- 10.46-10
- Extents
- 1 photographs (negative)
- Abstract
- The tube was developed and built at Caltech by Lauritsen and colleagues in 1928. In 1931 Millikan persuaded the Detroit cornflake magnate W. K. Kellogg to finance a new lab to house the research. Physics.