Four-Dial Resistance Box
Gray Instrument Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
about 1920
Maple case, black bakelite top, 4 dials (0-10) for 1, 10, 100, 1000 ohms. Two terminals, Serial 9803; stamped into wooden back: "15 F 52"
Overall: 7 × 8 × 4 in. (17.8 × 20.3 × 10.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
2007.1.97
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
Webster signature database says John G. Gray was successor to Queen and Co., flourished 1910-25, disappeared at Gray's death in 1925.
Provenance
Physics Department, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine; given to the Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, March 2007.
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