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Bendix RGA-1A Time-of-Flight Residual Gas Analyzer with female model

  • 1960s

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General view of a Bendix RGA-1A Time-of-Flight Residual Gas Analyzer with female model. The Bendix RGA-1 was specifically designed and marketed to enable accurate determination of the total pressure of a vacuum chamber and the partial pressure of each residual gas component present. The RGA-1 was designed for use with the MA-1 Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (TOFMS), the flagship analytical instrument of the Bendix Corporation.

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Bendix Corporation. “Bendix RGA-1A Time-of-Flight Residual Gas Analyzer with Female Model,” 1960–1969. Photographs from the Bendix Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer Collection, Box 1. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/0p096710b.

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