Meyer Faradic Battery
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Meyer Faradic Battery, no sn. A wooden base with a slate face on which is mounted a milli-ammeter (10-0-10 and 100-0-100, sn 54795), induction coil, rotary switch (0-75), one 2-position switch, one 4-position switch, and two sockets for electrodes. Nameplate reads: "Trade [logo] Mark / THE WM. MEYER CO. / Chicago, U.S.A." Two brass electrodes each having cloth insulation. A medium-screw base lamp socket emerges from the end near the meter, as does a two conductor cord with a Hubble plug.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from the United States Federal Communications Commission, thru Ralph J. Renton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.326676
label: catalog number
content: 326676
label: accession number
content: 263165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Coil, Induction
label: Object Name
content: induction coil
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 10 3/4 in x 20 1/2 in; 11.43 cm x 27.305 cm x 52.07 cm