Accession No

4333

Brief Description

rotating meter for oscillograph, by Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Ltd., English, 1912 (c)

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Ltd.

Class

optical

Earliest Date

1912

Latest Date

1912

Inscription Date

Material

wood; metal (brass, other); glass

Dimensions

length 209mm; breadth 186mm; height 295mm rotating mirror height 145mm; breadth 71mm; depth 71mm

Special Collection

Cambridge Instrument Company Collection

Provenance

Donated by the Cambridge Instrument Company.

Inscription

Description Notes

Black, rectangular wooden base; two brass terminals; wooden standards support rectangular, cylindrical (?curved, 11-1-2000) lens, and four-sided rotating box with mirrors, attached to axle with grooved metal pulley at end; two vertical coils wound on brass tubes mounted on base, with removable wooden cover. With extra rotating box-mirror. No inscriptions. Piece of wire protrudes from base.

Condition: good; complete (?).

Condition ‘fair’: vertical wooden support is detached from base (SK 05/02/2015)

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