Knott's Universal Galvanometer
name: label: maker
content: L. E. Knott Apparatus Company
notes: label: Description
content: This instrument was designed to function as eight instruments in one. The inscriptions on this example read “KNOTT’S / UNIVERSAL GALVANOMETER” and “93-1130” and “L. E. KNOTT APPARATUS CO. / BOSTON” and “PATENTED Dec. 10, 1912.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Louie E. Knott, “Galvanometer,” U.S. Patent #901,013 (Oct. 13, 1908).
label: Description
content: L. E. Knott Apparatus Co., <i>Catalogue</i> (Boston, 1912), p. 434.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Richard J. Zitto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0235.31
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0235.31
label: accession number
content: 2010.0235
objectType: label: Object Name
content: galvanometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 19/32 in x 16 3/4 in x 10 1/2 in; 37.084 cm x 42.545 cm x 26.67 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; spool: 4 1/8 in x 1 5/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 10.4775 cm x 4.1275 cm x 3.81 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; amp bar: 1/4 in x 5 3/8 in x 1 in; .635 cm x 13.6525 cm x 2.54 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 3/4 in x 17 in x 10 1/2 in; 37.465 cm x 43.18 cm x 26.67 cm