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Description: | KMG.5. (Green and Lloyd catalogue number in aluminium paint) MANU [J. White] after 1871 [ 241 or 209, Sauchiehall Street or 16, 18 and 20, Cambridge Street, Glasgow] [Scotland] DES THOMSON,William,Lord,1st Baron Kelvin of Largs. 1871 DES after SCHWEIGGER,Johann,Salomo,Christoph. 1820 Halle, Germany. This instrument is a paddle wheel moving magnet galvanometer introduced in 1871. It has several variations of coil length "tapped" by means of the paddle wheel like array of gate switches on the ends of the instrument hence its name and range of sensitivity. It was largely superceded by the graded galvanometer in 1881. On loan to the Physics and Astronomy Department EXIT NUMBER 2092 it is object 5 in display case D Kelvin & 'the New Professors', in room 470, The Kelvin Building, Glasgow University. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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