Cigar-shaped tube with flatter, crimped bottom around which is wound string over a thin cardboard underlay; three thinner diameter glass tubes projecting from bottom, each tube ending with a small glass ball with blue ends and each tube with thin wire strands, apparently copper, imbedded inside and attached to nipples on inside top of tube; one of the tubes with an additional glass tube extension curved upward from beneath the nipple end of the tube; broken off metal spring inside larger, main tube.
Created by
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Date Created
11/18/2021
Source
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Keywords
Engineers; Equipment; Research; Space
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