Variable Capacitor

The Eppley Laboratory, Inc., Newport, Rhode Island

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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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