Skip to content
History of Science Museum

Plug-in Pattern Resistance Box, by Pye

Inventory Number 96107


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.96107

Item type
Object
Makers
Pye
Provenance
Presented by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Dimensions
Height: 122mm Width: 285mm Depth: 100mm Weight: 1.95kg
Inventory No
96107
Accession Number
1992-26

Description

Dovetail jointed wooden box with Bakelite top with 17 Bakelite knobs in between Bakelite and copper alloy projections.  There are numbers inscribed into the copper alloy ranging from 1 to 5000.  There are two threaded copper screws with copper alloy discs on them.