Rayleigh current weigher apparatus (replica)
date: label: Date made
content: 1963
name: label: maker
content: Severn-Lamb, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Current Weigher, replica of apparatus used by Lord Rayleigh, ca. 1884, for measuring electrodynamic force between currents. Reference: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 175 (1884), pages 411-60.
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: 2001.3036.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2001.3036
objectType: label: Object Name
content: demonstration apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: main ring: 10 3/4 in x 20 in; 27.305 cm x 50.8 cm
label: Measurements
content: coil: 7/8 in x 9 in; 2.2225 cm x 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: coil holder: 10 1/2 in x 6 in x 6 3/4 in; 26.67 cm x 15.24 cm x 17.145 cm