Guide to the Stanford University, W. W. Hansen Laboratories, Klystron Reports and Patents
Daniel Hartwig
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:
Stanford University. W.W. Hansen Laboratory of Physics.
Title: Stanford University, W. W. Hansen Laboratories, klystron reports and patents
Dates: 1936-1949
Physical Description:
0.75 Linear feet
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:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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Stanford, CA 94305-6064
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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.
Stanford University. W.W. Hansen Laboratory of Physics.
Klystrons.
Microwave tubes.
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
