Size of this preview: 423 × 599 pixels. Other resolutions: 169 × 240 pixels | 339 × 480 pixels | 542 × 768 pixels | 723 × 1,024 pixels | 1,447 × 2,048 pixels | 5,223 × 7,394 pixels.
Original file (5,223 × 7,394 pixels, file size: 2.05 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
 | This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. |
Summary
Weston Galvanometer
(   ) |
|||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Photographer |
Staff photographer |
||||||||||||||||||||
| Title |
Weston Galvanometer |
||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: Weston Galvanometer
Rectangular wooden box; brown leather handle attached to top with metal fasteners; front has a steel lock screwed to it; lock is stamped with manufacturer; four hard black rubber feet on bottom; top attached with two brass hinges; black painted aluminium instrument panel with raised meter; meter has a glass window over measurement bar; metal plaque attached to meter identifying the manufacturer; on flat part of panel are two plastic knobs; around each knob is a piece of copper wire; typed instructions are included. Galvanometers detect and measure small amounts of electrical current through the use of a magnetic needle or a coil in a magnetic field. |
||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
| Accession number |
2003.029.013 |
||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Image downloaded with permission from the Science History Institute, as part of the Wikipedian in Residence initiative. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Source | https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/6h440s49d | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 18:07, 26 June 2019 | | 5,223 × 7,394 (2.05 MB) | Mary Mark Ockerbloom | == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Photograph |photographer =Staff photographer |title =Weston Galvanometer |Description ={{en|1= Weston Galvanometer Rectangular wooden box; brown leather handle attached to top with metal fasteners; front has a steel lock screwed to it; lock is stamped with manufacturer; four hard black rubber feet on bottom; top attached with two brass hinges; black painted aluminium instrument panel with raised meter; meter has a glass window over measuremen... |
File usage
The following page uses this file:
