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Description: | J. WHITE MAKER GLASGOW (in black on makers bone trade plate). O-90 (scale on each quadrant of the dip circle dial, divided into half degrees). MANU J. White. 1861 I, Renfield Street or 40 Gordon street, Glasgow, Scotland. DES THOMSON,William,Lord,1st Baron Kelvin of Largs. 1861 DES after DELEZENNE,Charles,Eduard,Joseph. 1844 Lille, France. In 1861, the British Association and Royal Society of London jointly appointed a committee, with Kelvin as chairman, to recommend a standard unit of electrical resistance. The committee appointed consisted of; Thomson, Williamson, Wheatstone, and W.H. Miller with Mathiessen and Fleeming Jenkin, to report on the subject. The following year, additional members were appointed including Clerk Maxwell, C.W. Siemens, Balfour Stewart, Joule, Varley, and Sir C. Bright and later Carey Foster, L. Clark and Hockin. The committee proposed to base the unit on the meter and second as in Webers electromagnetic system. Thomson and Fleeming Jenkin used this apparatus in 1862 in an attempt to measure the unit. | 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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