
Glass laboratory tube wound with copper wire used by James Joule




Glass laboratory tube wound with copper wire used by James Joule, c.1860 to determine the heating power of a metallic wire.
Cylinder was filled with water, the current passed through and the thermometer used to measure the temperature change.
Details
- Category:
- Scientific Instruments & Research
- Object Number:
- Y1969.5.6
- Materials:
- glass and copper (metal)
- Measurements:
-
overall: 318 mm, 17 mm,
- type:
- laboratory tube
- credit:
- Gift of University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology