Faradaic battery
date: label: date made
content: ca 1891
name: label: maker
content: Chloride of Silver Dry Cell Battery Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Induction Coil, housed in a brown wooden box. It is hinged in the back so that the top half opens to expose the coil. The coil has a primary wound on a 3/4" shaft with green insulation on the wire. The secondary coil slides over the primary and it has 2 winding, one with coarse wire the other with fine wire. The coil is powered by 2 chloride of silver dry cells which are labeled: "Manufactured only by / The Chloride of Silver / Dry Cell Battery Co. / Of Baltimore City MD. / Chloride of Silver Dry Cell / Patented April 21, 1891 / This side up / in circuit." In the top section are operating instructions and the patent date of Dec. 13, 1887. Includes two cloth insulated wire leads, one green, the othef red. Two handles, one with a momentary contact switch. Two felt wheels on arbors. One jumper wire. An on-off switch and a momentary contact switch are next to the batteries.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from the Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.330648
label: catalog number
content: 330648
label: accession number
content: 271855
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Battery, Faradaic
label: Object Name
content: induction coil
label: Other Terms
content: Battery, Faradaic; Electrochemical Devices
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 10 1/2 in x 7 in; 7.62 cm x 26.67 cm x 17.78 cm