Game: Guess the mystery object !

[ped]

Damn you!


Your turn.

 

[Hemlock_Mike]

Looks like it has slowed down. I'll fill in with another.
Yes it is a tube but it has no heater.

HMike

 

[anselm]

It's not a nixie-tube...
Audio amplifier?
Radio?

 

[Hemlock_Mike]

Anselm --- Think Photon --- No fillament heater
HMike

 

[Benm]

I'm no expert on these old things... but is it a photodector tube?

 

[Hemlock_Mike]

Benm ----

Close enough -- You WINNNNN !!!!!!!

It is a photo multiplier tube which detects photons like a geiger tube!

Tag -- You're it!

HMike

 

[millirad]

What is it?................

Clue: those are not laser pointers on the left and right.

 

[TTerbo]

Contraption from the latest SAW movie?

 

[millirad]

No not a movie prop.

 

[Coherent Light]

A trophy You won for fabricating an oil well drill bit on a milling machine?

 

[millirad]

You are getting closer.

Another clue: the gold plated(or maybe brass) parts in the center are very revealing.

Edit: the tractor is symbolic of something. And there is an "emblem" above it. It's old going back to the 1940's.

 

[millirad]

Another clue: the emblem is a hammer and sickle.

 

[Coherent Light]

Russian Tractor Engine boring set.

 

[millirad]

No not a boring set, but you were right when you said trophy.

 

[Coherent Light]

Trophy for the communal farm with the highest grain output?

 

[millirad]

Close enough. Ding! ding! ding! ding! Coherent Light wins. A trophy for Stalin, for being a good leader. :/