14" diameter flat copper coil
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: An induction coil with flat copper strips, 1.5 inches wide, wrapped with black velvet, binding-post terminals. A 1909 list records this with other Joseph Henry apparatus. 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.181547
label: catalog number
content: 181547
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 in; 3.81 cm x 35.56 cm