Resistance coil for Edison dynamo
date: label: Date made
content: 1881
name: label: maker
content: Edison Electric Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Resistance Coil, Edison Electric Light System. A cylindrical wooden mount partially wrapped with platinum wire mounted on a rectangular wooden base, two brass wire connectors on base. Used with first dynamo set up in factory, January 1881. "This was in use but a very short time and was afterwards replaced by an adjustable resistance box."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Edison, Menlo Park
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Energy & Power
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Joseph E. Hinds
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.180941
label: catalog number
content: 180941
label: accession number
content: 24315
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Resistance Coil
label: Other Terms
content: Inductance, Fixed; Resistance Coil; Components; Laboratory and Measurement; Laboratory and Measurement
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 4 3/8 in x 5 3/8 in; 12.065 cm x 11.1125 cm x 13.6525 cm