Variable Resister
Unknown Maker
about 1930
Frame of two insulating plates separated by 12 porcelain-covered coils that can be variously engaged by two sets of switches on top, with brown wooden handles (handwritten calibrations on top)
Overall: 12 × 9 × 12 in. (30.5 × 22.9 × 30.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
2007.1.45
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Scientific Instrument
Research Area
Scientific Instrument
Scientific Instrument: Electricity
Not on view
Provenance
Physics Department, Dartmouth College; transferred by Professor Allen King to the Dartmouth College Museum, 1966; catalogued into the Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, 2007.
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