Revolving Magnet on Axis

Name/Title

Revolving Magnet on Axis

Entry/Object ID

2013.3.70

Description

This instrument was purchased from E.M. Clarke, London, for one pound. Very likely it is designed to show that a magnet revolves on its axis when the magnet forms the conductor of electricity. This figure appears in Daniel Davis (Catalogue of Apparatus, Etc., Boston, 1848).

Collection

Moosnick Museum - Scientific Apparatus