Accession No

2425

Brief Description

Resistance box, with constantan coils, by W. G. Pye and Co., English, c. 1950

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

W. G. Pye and Co.

Class

electrical

Earliest Date

1945

Latest Date

1955

Inscription Date

Material

wood; plastic (ebonite); metal (brass, constantan)

Dimensions

length 297mm; breadth 98mm; height 124mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 1978.

Inscription

‘No. 10320
CONSTANTAN COILS
W.G. PYE & CO. CAMBRIDGE ENG.’ (on top)

Description Notes

Resistance box, by W. G. Pye & Co., English, c. 1950.

Rectangular wooden box with ebonite top; two brass terminals; brass blocks with seventeen plug receptors (including one marked ‘INF’); seventeen brass and ebonite plugs; sixteen coils wound on wooden bobbins fastened to underside of top plate.

Condition: good; complete.

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