Demonstration Dynamo
notes: label: Description
content: With this demonstration dynamo, each revolution of the crank lifts the ratchet, allowing a spring to rotate the coil through 10 degrees. As the coil moves through any ten-degree interval, an E.M.F. is induced with corresponds to the mean angular displacement of the coil from its original position.
label: Description
content: Ref: Robert Andrews Millikan and John Mills, <i>A Short University Course in Electricity, Sound and Light</i> (Boston, 1908), p. 134.
label: Description
content: Central Scientific Co. <i>Catalogue</i> (Chicago, 1928).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Richard J. Zitto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0235.27
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0235.27
label: accession number
content: 2010.0235
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dynamo
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/4 in x 11 in x 5 1/2 in; 15.875 cm x 27.94 cm x 13.97 cm