Tangent Galvanometer
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1900
name: label: maker
content: Chicago Laboratory Supply and Scale Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Tangent galvanometer designed for classroom use. The “CHICAGO LABORATORY SUPPLY AND SCALE COMPANY” inscription refers to a firm formed in the 1890s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Chicago Laboratory Supply and Scale Co., <i>Catalogue of Physical, Chemical and Biological Apparatus for Use in Laboratories of Colleges, Schools and Manufactories</i> (Chicago, ca. 1898), p. 194.
label: Description
content: Edwin H. Hall and J. Y. Bergen, <i>A Text-Book of Physics, Largely Experimental</i> (New York, 1904), p. 464.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Colorado State University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0297.01
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0297.01
label: accession number
content: 2005.0297
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tangent galvanometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 6 in x 6 in; 17.78 cm x 15.24 cm x 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 6 in x 6 in; 19.685 cm x 15.24 cm x 15.24 cm