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Description: | none MANU Unsigned. post 1870 This is a siphon recorder tape dating from post 1870. The recordings would possibly have been made using Steinheil plan which Kelvin used for reading the mirror galvanometer outputs on the Atlantic cable and the moving coil readouts in the siphon recorder. N. B. The tape is one of eleven siphon recorder tapes, not ten as listed on the label, of the cardboard box in which they were found, and referred to by a spurious Green and Lloyd number K.C.11, one was catalogued as K.C.2. by Green and Lloyd but not numbered, it was dated ? 12.18 am 1870 and displayed in the History of the University Exhibition in the Hunterian Museum entrance hall from 1981. This roll is is one of the remaining 2 unused tapes referred to as K.C.11. These tapes are for a different design of instrument and amay have been intended for an earlier prototype or for a later Morse type recorder. | 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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