14.5" diameter flat copper coil
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: An induction coil with flat copper strips, 1.5 inches wide, wrapped with brown cambric, binding-post terminals. This induction coil was made and used by Joseph Henry, the physicist who served as founding Secretary of the Smithsonian and was shown at the Alaska-Yukon­Pacific Exposition in 1909.
label: Description (Brief)
content: References: <i>Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution and the United States National Museum at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 1909</i> (Washington, 1909), 21.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From the Smithsonian Institution
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.181546
label: catalog number
content: 181546
label: accession number
content: 32407
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Coil
label: Object Name
content: induction coil
label: Other Terms
content: Coil; Electromagnetic Devices; Magnetic Devices; Electromagnetic Devices
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 14 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 36.83 cm