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Chaffee dual quenched spark gap, water cooled

Chaffee dual quenched spark gap, water cooled

Emory Leon Chaffee
circa 1910
Chaffee quenched spark gap

Chaffee quenched spark gap

Emory Leon Chaffee
1911-1912
Chaffee quenched spark gap

Chaffee quenched spark gap

Emory Leon Chaffee
1910-1911
Chaffee quenched spark gap, oil-filled

Chaffee quenched spark gap, oil-filled

Emory Leon Chaffee
1911-1912
Chaffee quenched spark gap, oil-filled

Chaffee quenched spark gap, oil-filled

Emory Leon Chaffee
1911-1912
Chaffe quenched spark gap, earliest water-cooled form

Chaffe quenched spark gap, earliest water-cooled form

Emory Leon Chaffee
1910
electric sparkler

electric sparkler

French
circa 1850
electric spark puncture card

electric spark puncture card

circa 1825
rotary mercury spark gap for Scheidel coil

rotary mercury spark gap for Scheidel coil

Otis Clapp and Son
ca. 1902-1910
spark gap

spark gap

American
late 19th-early 20th Century
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