Kelvin portable electrometer

Made:: 1867

designer:: William Baron Kelvin Thomson

Kelvin portable electrometer, 1867 type, by James White. Ex-Antarctic Expedition, 1901

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Category:: Geophysics

Object Number:: 1911-210

type:: electrometers

credit:: Admiralty Hydrographic Department

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Kelvin portable electrometer

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