Faraday's Ring or Hysteresis Coil

Faraday's Ring or Hysteresis Coil

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Description
Here, a circular coil and three pairs of binding posts are mounted on a wooden base marked “WOOD / O.D. 100 / I.D. 71” while a metal bar is marked “WM GAERTNER & CO. / CHICAGO.” L. E. Knott called this small instrument a Faraday’s Ring and Demonstration Transformer, describing it as a simple apparatus “designed for study of the principles and laws involved in self and secondary induction.” The Chicago Apparatus Co. called it a “Hysteresis Coil. Designed to meet the requirements of Experiment No. 15 in Millikan and Mills, ‘Electricity, Sound and Light.’”
Ref: Robert Andrews Millikan and John Mills, A Short University Course in Electricity, Sound and Light (Boston, 1908), pp. 164-165.
Wm. Gaertner Co. Catalog (Chicago, 1929), p. 2.
L. E. Knott Apparatus Co., Catalogue of Physical Instruments (Boston, 1912), p. 466.
Chicago Apparatus Co., Physical Instruments, Apparatus, and Supplies (Chicago, ca. 1931), p. 239.
Location
Currently not on view
Object Name
Faraday’s ring or hysteresis coil
maker
Gaertner Scientific Corporation
place made
United States: Illinois, Chicago
Physical Description
wood; metal (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 1 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in; 4.445 cm x 19.05 cm
ID Number
2010.0235.44
catalog number
2010.0235.44
accession number
2010.0235
Credit Line
Richard J. Zitto
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
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