Guide to the Stanford University, W.W. Hansen Laboratories,
Klystron Reports and Patents
Stanford University Libraries
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
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Overview
Call Number: SC0372
Creator:
Stanford University. W.W. Hansen
Laboratories.
Creator:
W.W. Hansen Laboratories of Physics
Title: Stanford University, W.W. Hansen Laboratories, klystron reports
and patents
Dates: 1936-1949
Physical Description:
0.75 linear foot
Summary: Reports generated at the Sperry Gyroscope Company on various
aspects of the Klystron, 1945-1947; photocopy of the Wave Guide Handbook, 1944-1945,
prepared by the Radiation Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; paper by
V.F. Kovalenko on the history of microwave electron-beam tubes, 1940; and printed
patents for the various elements of the Klystron, 1936-1949.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
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Administrative Information
Provenance
Administrative transfer, 1990.
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
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Cite As
Stanford University, W.W. Hansen Laboratories, Klystron Reports and Patents (SC0372).
Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical History
Brothers Sigurd and Russell Varian worked in collaboration with Prof. William W. Hansen
beginning in 1937 to invent and perfect the Klystron, a device for generating high-power
microwaves. Much of the work was conducted at the Sperry Gyroscope Company.
Description of the Collection
Reports generated at the Sperry Gyroscope Company on various aspects of the Klystron,
1945-1947; photocopy of the Wave Guide Handbook, 1944-1945, prepared by the Radiation
Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; paper by V.F. Kovalenko on the
history of microwave electron-beam tubes, 1940; and printed patents for the various
elements of the Klystron, 1936-1949.
Access Terms
Kovalenko, V.F. (Viktor Fedorovich).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation
Laboratory.
Sperry Gyroscope Company, inc.
Stanford University. W.W. Hansen
Laboratories.
W.W. Hansen Laboratories of Physics
Klystrons.
Microwave tubes.
Collection Contents
Box 1, Folder 1
Tables of contents from original binders.
Box 1, Folder 2
Wave Guide Handbook, sections 1-3
1944-45
Box 1, Folder 6
Kovalenko, V. F. "History of the Development of Microwave Electro-Beam
Tubes,"
1940
Sperry Gyroscope Company Reports
Box 2, Folder 1
Characteristics of the Type 410R Klystron
1945
Box 2, Folder 2
The Velocity Spectrograph and the Measurement of Electronic Beam
Loading in Klystron
1946
Box 2, Folder 3
calculation of Q and Shunt Impedance of Reentrant cavities,
1946
Box 2, Folder 4
Space Charge Effects in Reflex Klystrons
1947
Box 2, Folder 5
Patents for various elements of the Klystron
1936-1949
