Willyoung Ayrton-type galvanometer shunt
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Willyoung & Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This shunt consists of an instrument with 3 brass terminals and blocks, slide bar contacts for 6 points enclosed in a case. Marked, "Elmer G. Willyoung / Maker / New York U.S.A./ W662." This device was used as a shunt to galvanometers to permit a definite fraction of the total current to pass through it, as 1/10, 1/00, etc., for the purpose of measuring larger currents than the galvanometer could carry.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Weston Electrical Instrument Corp., thru John H. Miller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.313273
label: catalog number
content: 313273
label: accession number
content: 181342
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shunt
label: Object Name
content: electrical shunt
label: Other Terms
content: Shunt; Measuring Devices
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in x 6 1/4 in; 8.89 cm x 10.795 cm x 15.875 cm