The Oxford Vaporizer
- Date:
- 1940-1955
- Reference:
- PP/HGE/C/A/5
- Part of:
- Dr Hans Georg Epstein (1909-2002)
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
"OXF VAPOR" (original file title). Contents: Instruction guide on using the Oxford Vaporizer. Patent for apparatus to vaporizer ether, inc. attached letter requesting adding the name of K.Mendelssohn to inventors, this includes Epstein's handwritten comment, added later: 'I never knew about this insidious insert until years later' (5 June 1941). Design drawing for the Oxford Vaporizer models A and B. Design and experiment notes re: vaporizer development. Copy of letter from Lt Gen Alex Hood to Lord Nuffield re: the successful use of the Oxford Vaporizer at El Alamein (25 February 1943). Letters re: Mendelssohn's patent problems with the 'Ether Vaporizer' (July 1945)
Publication/Creation
1940-1955
Physical description
1 file
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores