Roget reciprocating spiral
name: label: associated person
content: Roget, Peter Mark
label: maker
content: Max Kohl
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Roget Reciprocating Spiral, unit consists of a reciprocating coil of wire mounted in a clamp on a round wooden base. The tip of the wire dips into a cup of mercury, and electro-dynamic action causes the wire spiral to oscillate. Mercury has been removed from this specimen. Reference: MacLaren, "The rise of the electrical industry during the nineteenth century," page 21.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Case Institute of Technology, Department of Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.323663
label: catalog number
content: 323663
label: accession number
content: 251332
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Roget Reciprocating Spiral
label: Object Name
content: demonstration apparatus
label: Other Terms
content: Contact Breaker; Roget Reciprocating Spiral; Magnetic Devices; Electromagnetic Devices; Electromagnetic Devices
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 5 in; 26.67 cm x 12.7 cm