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Galvanometer in Mountable Glazed Box, Associated with Neurophysiology Experiments, Probably 1920s

Inventory Number 13547


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.13547

Item type
Object
Provenance
Transferred from the University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford, in 2005, per Professor David Paterson.
Object type
Galvanometer
Dimensions
Height: 210mm Width: 146mm Depth: 98mm Weight: 1.05kg
Inventory No
13547
Accession Number
2013-27/part

Description

Demonstrational Galvanometer fixed into a wooden, hinged, glass fronted box. There is a curved scale, with zero in the centre and reading either side to 30, in increments of 10. Smaller handwritten scale fixed to printed scale, handwriting reads ' .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 VOLTS D/TS.' With a coiled copper wire running the length of the box.