Electrometer
name: label: maker
content: Cambridge & Paul Instrument Co., Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: Friedrich Dolezalek (1873-1920), a Hungarian physicist who was then studying and working with Walter Nernst in Gottingen, Germany, developed a quadrant electrometer in 1896. According to the donor, this example came from the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. An inscription reads "The Cambridge and Paul / Instrument Co., Ltd., England. / C14902” and indicates a date in the early 1920s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Otto Stuhlman, Jr., “The Modern Electrometer,” Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 41 (1926): 259-266.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.0365.14
label: accession number
content: 1995.0365
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0365.14
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 31.5 cm x 15.1 cm; 12 13/32 in x 5 15/16 in