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- OBJECT TYPE
- ELECTRIC BALANCE
- DATE
- 1888
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1997.0104.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Kelvin & White, James Ltd.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Glasgow, Scotland
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 993
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 7
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- WOODEN BOX WITH VELVET AND SILK LINING AND METAL HARDWARE/ WEIGHTS, BRASS/ RIDERS, METAL/ MAGNIFYING BALANCE, METAL AND GLASS/ METAL LIFTER
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 17.8 cm
- Width
- 11.0 cm
- Height
- 6.8 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Metrology
- Category
- Mass/weight
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Kelvin
- Country
- Scotland
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Glasgow
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- PROBABLY USED IN THE EARLY PART OF THE 20TH C
- Canada
-
TYPE SAMPLE - Function
-
USED WITH AN ELECTRIC BALANCE TO DETERMINE THE VALUE OF ELECTRIC CURRENT IN AMPERES. BALANCE IS RESTORED TO THE BEAMS WHEN AN ELECTRIC CURRENT PASSES THROUGH THE COILS BY SLIDING THE WEIGHTS ALONG A GRADUATED SCALE ON THE BEAM FROM WHICH THE CURRENT CAN BE READ IN AMPERES. - Technical
-
THESE WEIGHTS ARE MEANT TO BE USED WITH A KELVIN TYPE ELECTRICAL BALANCE. KELVIN DEVELOPED A COMMERCIAL INSTRUMENT BASED ON LORD RAYLEIGH'S CURRENT BALANCE OF 1883. [REF 1] - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- BOX: PLATE AFFIXED TO TOP: 'ELECTRIC BALANCE/ No 993'/ PAPER LABEL INSIDE LID READS IN PART: 'ELECTRIC BALANCE No. 993/ Weight in Grammes/ Watts/ per Division/ of Movable Scale/ Carriage alone, 1.4740 - 2/ " + Weight 1, 3.6850 - 5/ " + " 2, 14.7400 - 20/.../ With 500 ohms in fine wire circuit at 100 Volts' [above in tabular form]/ STAMPED ON TOP OF.1-.5: '993'/ NO MARKINGS ON.6 &.7
- Missing
- APPEARS COMPLETE
- Finish
- BOX, STAINED AND VARNISHED; LINING IN BOX, PURPLE; LACQUERED METAL
- Decoration
- N/A
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Kelvin & White, James Ltd., Weight, after 1888, Artifact no. 1997.0104, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1997.0104.001/
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