rotator with coil
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A curved copper wire with a brass bearing, pivots on a small spherical cup and rotates in a wooden trough of mercury. Mercury removed from this specimen. Electrodynamic action is set up by current flowing through brass fixtures on the base and through the copper rotator, thus interacting with a external magnetic field set up by a separate coil wound around the wooden trough. Paper tag: "E / 782".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Case Institute of Technology, Department of Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.323666
label: catalog number
content: 323666
label: accession number
content: 251332
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Rotator
label: Other Terms
content: Rotator; Electromagnetic Devices; Magnetic Devices; Electromagnetic Devices
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in; 29.21 cm x 16.51 cm