Accession No

2783

Brief Description

moving coil, reflecting galvanometer, by Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Ltd., English, c. 1903

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Ltd.

Class

electrical

Earliest Date

1903

Latest Date

1903

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass); glass

Dimensions

height 237mm; base diameter 174mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from Department of Botany, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 1981.

Inscription

‘THE CAMBRIDGE
SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT CO. LTD.
ENGLAND No. 2667’ (top plate)

Description Notes

Moving coil, reflecting galvanometer, by Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, English, c. 1903.

Circular brass base; three levelling feet; two brass terminals; two bubble levels; cylindrical magnet with brass top plate; brass suspension tube with zero-adjusting screw at top; circular glazed window shwing suspended circular mirror; brass clamping screw; suspended system enclosed in brass tube, removable as a unit; narrow coil without iron core.

Condition fair (suspension intact, brass corroded); complete

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