Variable Capacitor
The Eppley Laboratory, Inc., Newport, Rhode Island
about 1970
Black bakelite case, two thumbscrew terminals, cat. no. 100, serial no. 544844, unsaturated cadmium cell.
Overall: 4 × 4 × 5 in. (10.2 × 10.2 × 12.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
2007.1.105
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Scientific Instrument
Research Area
Scientific Instrument
Scientific Instrument: Electricity
Not on view
Published References
Standards of Electromotive Force (The Eppley Laboratory); according to www. humboldt.edu/~seimus/Instruments/EppCellMen/EpplyMan.html (11/08), Eppley lab records of their cells from 1915-1993 are held at Vintage Radio & Communication Muesum, East Hartford, CT.
Provenance
Source unknown; catalogued into the Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, January 2008.
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