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‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

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

1865-1866

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Crookes vacuum tube containing a mineral sample

Campbell mutual standard by Cambridge Instrument Co.

1925-1930

Muirhead Clark standard cell

1888

Cambridge Instrument Co. "Round Compensator", 1890

1890

Dummy 100 volt dry battery, 1917

1917

Apparatus for earth induction

1887

Reflecting galvanometer by Siemens

Test set

1919-1920

Puluj electrical radiometer

Crookes vacuum tube for demonstrating the properties of cathode rays

Static electricity discharging tongs

Cavallo's electric multiplier

Plug type bridge box and galvanometer

Ebert's phosphorescent lamp

Crookes' tube for showing that heat is produced by cathode ray bombardment

1879-1888

Holtz 'restricted ray' vacuum tube

Crookes' tube for showing the phosphorescence of calcium sulphide

1879-1888

Magnets rotating round a current

1822-1856

Drysdale-Tinsley universal potentiometer

1910

Smee cell

1895

Siemens dynamometer

1900

Dummy 45-volt dry battery, 1917

1917

Crookes' tube for showing the phosphorescence of alumina

1879-1888

Bank of seven Weston standard cells

1893-1901

Rheostat, Kelvin Pattern

1888

Kelvin-White portable volt and amperemeter

1906

Callendar and Griffiths bridge No.4317

1906-1907

Mather electrostatic voltmeter

1890-1910

Siemens experimental galvanometer

1900

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

1893-1901

Dummy 60-volt dry battery

1917

Variable capacitor calibrated in jars, No.7

Ammeter graduated to 100 amperes

1887

Bertin commutator

1886

Double tongue commutator used by Wheatstone

1861

Professor Ewing's magnetic tester, c.1895

1895

"10,000 legal ohms" resistance by Elliott Bros.

1881-1889

Sturgeon mercury break

1886

Direct reading two-range voltmeter

1900

Helical coils revolving round a magnet

1822-1856

Gold leaf electrometer with sliding condenser

1886

Kohlrausch Galvanometer

1900

Voltmeter graduated to 100 volts

1887

Volta's condensing electroscope

1897-1910