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‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

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

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

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

Moving iron ammeter with torsion head

Replicas of copper disc

1831

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

Moving iron meter

1927

Mercury interrupter

1860-1890

App's clockwork interrupter

1890

Moving-coil ammeter of a commercial design modified by E.H.W. Banner

1928

Potentiometer, by Gambrell Bros. & Co. Ltd.

Cardew's voltmeter, patent, no. 147 (Ediswan)

1890

Weston Normal Cell

1928

Early moving coil voltmeter

1889

Resistance divider box for use with potentiometer

Oscillograph, Cambridge Instrument Co. No. L 28466

1930

Sub-standard 1000 ohm resistance

1930

Rymer-Jones key

Motor driven oscillograph unit with "linear sweep" mirror

1925

Electrostatic oscillograph

1925

Weston normal cell by Cambridge Instrument Co.

Battery of nine Grove cells

Siemens dynamometer

1900

Twin element permanent magnet oscillograph in box

1910

Liquid crystal display as used in sthe Scopex Voyager oscilloscope

1982

Silver voltmeter, for international ampere determination

1907-1930

Pair of bar magnets

Kelvin astatic mirror galvanometer

1901-1913

Lindemann electrometer

1924

Standardizing and switching apparatus

1900

Boys' contact electricity electrometer, c. 1891

1891

Siemens experimental galvanometer

1900

Astatic galvanometer by Elliott Brothers, 1872.

1872

Fixed parallel plate device for measuring positive emission currents

1907-1908

Rotating spark

1872

Sectioned induction coil

1874

Resistance box by Elliott Bros., London

Wheatstone bridge

1932