2003.70.90
Description
- Médias
- Image
- Type d'élément
- Images, Electronic
- Description
- - Galvanometer
- round wooden base with bevelled edge; attached to top is piece of veritcal wood with scrolled sides; attached to front of this is a piece of curved decorative molding; sitting on edge of molding, screwed to both molding and vertical wood is a metal box; coming out of oval hole on top of box is a bent metal rod with arrow point on end; rod is attached to rectangle and pivots around centre screw that comes out front of metal box; top of vertical wood is curved and shows the number sequence: "2 1 0 1 2" above graduated lines; under this engraving reads: "L.E.KNOTT/APPARATUS COMPANY,/Boston, Mass."
- on base in front of vertical wood are 4 metal posts [terminals] with spool shaped nuts on top; these posts run through to underside of base and are saudered to wires set in channels that then run up through the base to the metal box
- 2 hemisphere feet attached to bottom; also on bottom is black metal rectangle attached with 2 screws; circle cutout; end of screw can be seen, this screw runs to top side and sits to right of vertical piece of wood
- used to detect, measure, and determine the direction of small electric currents by means of mechanical effects produced by a current
- used in science labs at CCI in early 1900s
- first school built at corner of Murray and Prince streets in 1855, known as Chatham Grammar School
- 1870s school was turned into a high school
- 1887 school obtained collegiate status
- September 1940 the building on site today was opened
- spring of 2002 school was slated to be closed a campaign to keep it open lasted one year and school finally closed in spring of 2003
- Date unknown
- 21.8cm D / 30.8cm H
Chatham Kent Museum
Out in the Open exhibition
VS 078 - Sujet(s)
- Collection
- Chatham Kent Museum
- Déclaration de droit d'auteur
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Emplacement d'original
- Chatham Kent Museum
Out in the Open exhibition
VS 078 - Conditions d'utilisation
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- Contacter
- Chatham-Kent MuseumCourriel:ckcccmuseum@chatham-kent.ca
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