cylinderical variable capacitor
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Unmarked variable capacitor, 21.5 pairs of plates, dial on top with 0-100 calibration. Specimen has 22 fixed and 21 rotor plates, arranged with circular bakelite insulators as frame supports on each end, and with copper rods affixed to stator plates which carry circuit connections to screws on one bakelite section. Rotor connections are made to copper leaf in rear.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Franklin Wingard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.321716
label: catalog number
content: 321716
label: accession number
content: 241556
objectType: label: Object Name
content: capacitor
label: Object Name
content: variable condenser
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 3 3/4 in; 12.7 cm x 9.525 cm