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Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Leclanche cell battery

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Cathode ray furnace with specimens of coked diamonds

1906-1907

Kelvin & James White Ltd ampere

circa 1903

reflecting astatic moving iron galvanometer

circa 1920

Three magnetic line of force patterns made by Faraday and given to a friend

Methanol/air fuel cell, with component parts

1965

Station electrometer by James White

1867

Replica of apparatus used by Ohm to prove Ohm's Law

1826

Collection of four vacuum tubes (originally seven tubes but three BOS March 1931)

Crookes' tube for showing the focusing of cathode rays

1879-1888

Twenty four electrical radiometers illustrating Sir W.Crookes' research on electrical discharges in a vacuum

1879-1888

"17 inch" plate Wimshurst electrostatic machine

1885

Kilo-ampere balance (a) Box containing sliding weights

1888

Panel containing seven examples of P.O. telephone magnets

Five Geissler tubes by William Ladd, England, 1847-1860

1847-1860

Induction Coil

1881

Leclanché battery

1887

Scale & telescope for use with mirror galvanometer

Variable air capacitor by Graham and Latham Ltd.

1910-1918

Discharging electrometer of unusual form

Rheostat with ten turns of thick wire

ultra violet tubes

Aron Electricity Meter Company electric meter

collection of objects

resistance potentiometer

1897

electrodynamometer

1900

electrodynamometer

circa 1925

Leeds and Northrup `Speedomax H' Chart Recorder

1967

Everett Edgcumbe Circular Synchronizer

Leeds and Northrup `Speedomax H' Chart Recorder

1966

Galvanometer in Wood Framed Glass Case

1905

Vacuum tube used in an unrecorded experiment on cathode rays from a sphere of aluminium

1881

Portable standard multi-range moving coil voltmeter

Large electromagnet pole piece

1850

Early d'Arsonval galvanometer made by Carpentier

1882-1900

A.C. ammeter model 155

Small superconducting electromagnet

1965

Moving magnet gravity control "detector" galvanometer with 2

Replicas of copper disc

1831

Direct reading capacity bridge by Leslie Dixon & Co.

1922-1940

Ayrton & Mather electrostatic gravity voltmeter by R.W. Paul

1893-1901

Plug type bridge box and galvanometer

Pocket voltmeter, moving iron repulsion type

1910

Wire rheostat, 50 ohm 6 amp by Robert W. Paul

1900-1919