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Moving Coil Meter Reading High Temperatures (for an Industrial Pyrometer), Demonstration or Experimental Sample, by Elliott, Mid 20th Century

Inventory Number 13483


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.13483

Item type
Object
Makers
Elliott
Provenance
Presented by the Marconi Corporation in 2003. Elliott Collection 1610.
Primary inscriptions
Scale signed 'Elliott | Made in England', & other information including 'Ser. No. P.785'.
Physical material
Metal
Perspex
Object type
Electronic instrument
Dimensions
Height: 130mm Width: 274mm Depth: 371mm Weight: 2.05kg
Inventory No
13483
Accession Number
2003-11

Description

Uncased demonstration or experimental instrument, mounted on a perspex board (formerly covered with a broken perspex cover or box, which was discarded). The dial scale reads 0 to 1000 degrees centigrade, divided in units of 20, providing the remote display for a high-temperature industrial pyrometer.