Experimental electromagnet
date: label: date made
content: ca 1840
name: label: associated user
content: unknown
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Experimental electro-magnet with iron core, cloth insulated wires. Used on frame catalog number 181741. Supposed to have been used by Joseph Henry, founding Secretary of the Smithsonian.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.181742
label: catalog number
content: 181742
label: accession number
content: 33204
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Magnet, Horseshoe
label: Object Name
content: electromagnet
label: Other Terms
content: Magnet, Horseshoe; Magnetic Devices
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 6 in x 2 3/4 in; 13.97 cm x 15.24 cm x 6.985 cm