Despretz's Apparatus for Testing the Conducting Power of Solids

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about 1880

Overall: 16 in. (40.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

2002.1.34211

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Scientific Instrument

Research Area

Scientific Instrument

Scientific Instrument: Heat

Not on view

Published References

Ganot's Physics (1890), p. 376

Provenance

Source unknown; catalogued into the Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, 2002.

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