Variable Capacitor
Unknown Maker
about 1930
Wooden base, bakelite grooves in which slide the aluminum fins, thrumbscrew terminals on side of fixed fins, on end of movable fins.
Overall: 12 × 3 1/2 × 5 in. (30.5 × 8.9 × 12.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
2007.1.107
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, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine; given to the Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, March 2007.
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