Physics Museum - The University of Queensland, Australia Skip to main content UQ Home Contacts Study Maps News Events Library my.UQ The University of Queensland Physics Museum Homepage Site menu Home About Events Search Catalogue Director's Blog Multimedia Gallery Contact Welcome to the new UQ Physics Museum About us New: QR Codes arrive at the Physics Museum Access more information like photo galleries and audio descriptions using QR codes Sumpner Reflecting Electrodynamometer Learn more about it The Director's Blog Read the latest post Welcome to the Physics Museum The museum houses a collection of instruments, books and memorabilia dating back to the very beginning of The University of Queensland. Among other things, it offers visitors an insight into how things used to be done, and to see how to use a slide rule, computer punch cards, computer magnetic memory, a 1 meter searchlight mirror, and shake hands with their own image. Check out the museum catalog. You are welcome to visit 9-5 weekdays. Although not all items are labelled, most are, and have links to more information on our website. We have a smartphone audio guide system. AUDIO TOURS ( for SMART PHONE or ONLINE) 100 YEARS OF PHYSICS AT UQ INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF LIGHT CRYSTALLOGRAPHY MICROSCOPES (downstairs) BEFORE PHOTONICS (downstairs) PARNELL, SUMPNER & PAUL PAPER TAPE AND PUNCHED CARDS ELECTRIC MASTER CLOCKS CRO - QUEEN OF INSTRUMENTS (upstairs) PROUDLY MADE IN AUSTRALIA (coming soon) GOOD OLD DAYS OF CALCULATION (upstairs) AWV TRANSISTOR REPLACEMENT SLIDE RULE Crystal Detector, Celluloid Enclosed Synchronome Installation Records 1902 -1907 Synchronome Advertising Matter Scrapbook vibrating reed frequency meter Tangent Galvanometer Bubble Level Dynaphon Public Address Horn Loudspeaker Type S15 Magnetron Magnet Micrometer, 2-3 inch Geohm Ground Tester Vacuum Tube Voltmeter Type 727-A Galvanometer Film Camera for Microscope Eveready Battery No 411, 15V Mansbridge's Condenser, 1 microfarad Unipivot Galvanometer Decade Resistance Box, Thousands Decade Resistance Box, Hundreds Transformer 100V Regulated Power Supply 0-50V 100 mA Elsec Proton Magnetometer Type 592/309 Potentiometer, 10 k ohms Incandescent Light Dimmer Swich 240 VAC Rheostat Type R-100 Double Pole, Double Throw Changeover Switch Universal Galvanometer Shunt Voltmeter, AC/DC with suppressed scale Moving Iron Ammeter 40A, Type P.I.6 Valve Grid Dip Oscillator Model GDO-2 Digital Mains Frequency Meter Refractory Brick Projector Lamp 220 V, 500 W Leclanche Cell Size D, No 950 100 kV Voltmeter Thermo-Galvanometer Model 425 International Microfarad Incandescent Lamp 1500W Metric Micrometer Borehole Data Logger Q Meter Type T.1. R-C Audio Oscillator Type A57150 Random Noise Generator 1390-B Random Noise Generator 1390-B Stepped Pulley? Onemeter DC Multimeter Microwave Probe WHEATSTONE BRIDGE RESISTANCE BOX Hall Effect Gaussmeter Spring Test Calibration Samples Four Tuning Forks Rectangular Glass Blocks Double Concave Lens Faber-Castell 1/54 Darmstadt Slide rule Car battery Hydrometer Sharp Pocket Computer PC-1500 Megger Insulation Tester BM7 Jaw Assembly for Indentation Hardness Tester Brass hydrometer Valve Tester Model 566 Wavemeter Type 566-A Transistor Inverter Type VB-32 Rotary Transformer (Generator) A.P.No 2 Wavemeter Type 566-A HF/VHF Precision Wire-wound Potentiometer Magnetic Hysterisis Apparatus Wire-wound Potentiometer 50K Wire-wound Potentiometer 100R AC Voltmeter (50 V) Travelling Wave Tube Public Address Amplifier M250 Mains Frequency Meter Opisometer Endoscope Box of Electronic Instrument Manuals Public Address System Amplifier Carriers with Knife Edge Function Generator PM5168 Kent Portable Potentiometer PP322-1 AM - FM Radio Kit Laser Power Meter UHF Wavemeter Type 1140-A Erlangmeter Ammeter Shunts VHF TV Field Strength Meter Model 5901 Spare Brushes and Bcreens for van de Graaf Generator DC Resistance Bridge WB3 Galvanometer Sine and Square Wave Generator Model 112 Transmission Measuring Set Type 259 Variable Quenched Spark Gap V.M.L. Laboratory Voltmeter Weston Volt-Ammeter Model 280 Power Amplifier Type 2706 Lecture Demonstration Electric Motor Geiger Counter Filter Set Cover Glasses Instrument Thermometer Variable Inductor Type 2V9009 Variable Capacitor Type 1U9008 Three Phase Power Factor Meter Model 658 Frequency Meter (400 Hz) Scalamp Electrostatic Voltmeter 10 kV Joly Photometer 270 Degree RPM Meter Model 536CS Sweep Tube / valve PL509 Sweep Tube / Valve 6JS6A Instrument Bulb Resistor for Vehicle Ignition System Bank of Sensitrol Relays Model 705 Box of Electronic Instrument Manuals Microwave Transmitter (2.8 cm) Incandescent Light Source Magnetic Flux Density Reference 1.39 kG Bakelite Tablegram 11-25 Student Beam Balance Dummy Load Parts Amplifier and Null Detector Type 1231B Stop Watch Lens Gauge Spherometer Valve Extractor High Voltage Selenium Rectifier Pathology Microscope Planar Triode Valve JAN 6299 Sine and Square Wave Generator Model 112 Catkin Valves Weston AC Voltmeter Model 433 AWA Carphone Volt Power Unit Weston DC/AC Milliammeter Model 370 Silicon Wafers Silicon wafers Fowlers Extra Long Scale Slide Rule Weston Current Transformer Model 539 ATM High-Speed Relay 414 Fifty Cycle Inverter Model VR58FF Hope No 51 Slide Rule Laboratory Resistor 10K ohms APO meter No. 3 Post Office Wheatstone Bridge railway caliper Three AR7 Coil Boxes Nuclear Warfare Pamphlet Opthalmascope "Ascol" Pocket Spray Valve Rectifier 12G-K17 AC/DC Voltmeter Drum Microscope AC Range Box for Unipivot Meter Pulfrich Photometer AC Ammeter Model 155 Optical Pieces AC Voltmeter Electric Motor Diodes and transistors Oven Turntable Motor Infra-Red Detectors Copper Boiler Norden M9 Bombsight (2) Apparatus, Unknown Purpose SAFTPAK Isolation Transformer Box of Material Scraps Set of Troy Masses Electric Clocks Transmitting Valve QBL 3.5/2000 Assman Hygrometer (2) Mechanical Clock Movement Quartz Clock Lamps, Projector and Lighting Dekatron Tube Synchronous Motor and Gearbox Rubik's Cube Rectangular Glass vase Macintosh Powerbook 100 Computer Universal AC/DC Motor Drive All Transistor Radio, Kriesler 41-26 Microwave Directional Coupler Three AR7 Coil Boxes Edison Fireside Phonograph, Combination Type Variac. Adjustable Transformer Type 100-R Section of Edison Tube Bell Jar Demonstration Hydraulic Lift Assay Balance Electrostatic Voltmeter 5kV Electrostatic Voltmeter 5kV Cambridge Portable Potentiometer Map-Measure with Magnetic Needle Rotor, Electric Motor Map-Measure with Magnetic Needle Glassware, Various Mirrors and Lenses X-Ray Tube Anode Neutron Target and Detector? X-Ray HT Rectifier Drive with Slipping Clutch Double Adaptor Mains Plug Two pin Electrical Plug Diodes & Transistors Potentiometer & Flexible Shaft Electric Clock Motor LV Lamp in Small Bayonet Socket Twin Knife Switches, 2 Pole 2 Position Power regulator Board Meter for Thermocouple Hybrid Transformers Box of Incandescent Lamps 35T Ionisation Gauge DC Electric Motor Sub Standard Coil 100k Ohms Lindemann Electrometer UHF Amplifier Valve 6280/416B Transmitting Valve Triode 717A/VT269 Transmitting Valve Triode JAN-C1M-15E Scale Balance Scales Triode Valve 104-D Magdeburg Hemispheres Double Triode Valve E92CC Magnetometer Pocket Slide Rule AC Voltmeter kHz Meter UV Lamp AC Voltmeter Double Tetrode Valve 832A & Socket Thyratron Valve RZC1031 Double Triode Valve E90CC Power Pentode Valve UL41 Pentode Valve 5654/6AK5 Transistor Hearing Aid Virtual Amperes Meter Transistor 0C72 Photometer Model 9152B Portable Illumination Meter Zellweger Ripple Control Receiver Glass Trough Eotvos Balance X-1 Wall Clock Measuring Machine M1616 Voltage Meter Ranger Seismometer Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Electrical Apparatus The Drinking Bird Helical Discharge Tube Frequency Crystals (30 Frequency Crystals (6) Capacitance Box Box of Scale Balance Weights Illuminated Eyepiece X7 Ramsden Halley's Comet Commemorative Plate Norden Bombsight Optical Platform Gyroscope Constant Voltage Transformer Bombsight Platform Stabiliser Valve Enneode 6BE7 PMG Test Meter Bombsight Optical Platform Intensifying Screen Fluorescent Tubes Parallel Rule Current Transformer KS/9 Signal Strengthening Unit Tungsten Halogen Incandescent Bulb Universal RC Bridge A56048 Set of Organ Pipes Tuning Fork 30 cps Set of Tuning Forks Retort Projector Lamp 24V Valve R10/CV261 Diffraction Grating Vacuum Flask HT Supply Unit 508, DC Mains VU Meter Thermoammeter Demonstration Bourdon Gauge Rheostat Pocket Slide Rule Plumbicon Tubes Model of the Human Eye AC Ammeter 50 Amps AC Ammeter 100 Amps Carbon Microphone Insert No 13 Hearing Aid Earpiece Microphone Hand No 3 Over-Voltage Arrester Fuji Microfiche Reader RFP2 Selenium Full Wave Three Phase Rectifier Assembly Microscope Lamp EAI TR-20 Analogue Computer Pirani Gauge Bridge Model 6/2 Tungsten Halogen Incandescent Bulb Pirani Gauge Head Ionisation Gauge Head Precision Model III Scintillator Scholar Slide Rule Valve Output Pentode EL3NG Telegraph Line Insulator Silicon Solar Cell Photo Resistor Box of Galena Crystal Hysrometer SG 1020 to 1140 Crookes' Radiometer Hydrometer with Thermometer Hydrometer Vehicle Battery Hydrometer Alcohol Hydrometer Nicholson Hydrometer Lead Battery Hydrometer Einstein Letter Grid Tuning Variometer Electrolytic Capacitor ATOM 'LYTIC Styroseal Capacitors 1000V DC Tuning Capacitor Two Gang D,Arsonval Meter "Error" Screw-in Fuse Electrolytic Capacitor Waveguide Variable Attenuation Section Domestic Fuse Holder Thermal Circuit Breaker T-R Discharge Tube Multi-Range Current Transformer MRCT Medical Stimulation Discharge Electrode Fixed Vacuum Capacitor Carbon Arc Rods Inductameter Ammeter Universal RC Bridge A56048 Cold Cathode Indicator Tube GR10A Valve Pentode 6Y6G Magic Eye DM71 & Socket Stirling Engine Valve Subminiature Triode CV468 Valve Regulator 0A2 Valve Double Triode 12AT7/ECC81 7 pin Miniature Valve Socket Octal Valve Socket ST38 Octal Valve Socket ST48 Precision Resistor 5 Ohms Slide Resistor 8 Ohms Rod in Glass Resistor RC Grid Leak HV Selenium Rectifier Stack Stud Diode Germanium Stud Diode GU1A100SB Vehicle Alternator Diode Germanium Transistor ASZ17 Germanium Transistor OC36 Copper Oxide Rectifier Selenium Rectifier Thermal Time Delay Relay Meter Rectifier Thermo Ammeter Element Ferrite Balun Transformer Core Neon Glow Lamp Small Instrument Lamp and Base Small Incandescent Bulb 12 Volt Resistor One Watt Resistor Precision High R Valve Computer Module, Double Triode Valve Computer Module, Double Triode Valve Computer Module, Pentode Valve Computer Module, Thyratron Valve Computer Module, Power Pentode Valve Computer Module, Double Triode Wall Thermometer 0C to 110C, 1C Setpoint Mercury Thermometer 0C to 50C, 0.5C Setpoint Mercury Thermometer 0C to 100C, 1C Setpoint Mercury Thermometer 0C to 100C, 1C Thermal Circuit Breaker Sine Bar Single Lens Microscope Mercury Thermometer 0C to 360C, 2C Mercury Thermometer 0C to 360C, 0.2C Alcohol Thermometer -200C to 30C, 0.1C Mercury Thermometer 50C - 100C, .01C Full Immersion Mercury Thermometer 0C to 110C, .01C Enclosed Hg Thermometer -10C to 110C, 1C Thermometer 0 to 545C Thermometer -5C to 60C Aneroid Barometer Parts Weston Standard Cell Type 5-550-A Weston Reference Cell Type F Box of Mercury Switches Electric Solenoid Counter Radio Valve Diode AV44 Photomultiplier Tube Altimeter Young's Modulus Apparatus Switches Connection Block Morse key type "F" (Bathtub) Goldring Needle Checker Microscope accessories Stroboscope 180 V.P.S. Diffraction Grating 15,000 lpi Kaleidoscope Fluid Decanter Microscope Objective Lens (16 mm) Projector Lens 25 inch FL Telescope Tube and Eyepiece Spectrometer Slit Assembly Fabry Perot Etalon Telescope Spectrometer Slit Assembly Projector Lens 2 1/2 Inch Projector Lens 6 inch Projector Lens 95 mm Projector Lens Microscope with 25 mm Square Graticule Telemicroscope Projector Lens Fusion Splicer for Optical Fibre Optical Fibre Cleaver Cat. no. 92214 Optics for Dye Laser Electro-optic m…