thermoelectric generator
Date1870-1910
Inventory Number0377
ClassificationGenerator
Subject
Maker
American
?
Cultural Region
Dimensions16.6 × 16.5 × 16.5 cm (6 9/16 × 6 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.)
Material
DescriptionTwenty pair of thermoelectric contacts of heavy metal mounted in a ring connected in series, the coal connections on the outside of an asbestos cylinder with small ventilating tubes attached to each.
Signedunsigned
FunctionFor generating an electric current by the use of a gas burner. For more information, go to the following website.
Charles Chardin
Date: 1870-1900
Accessories: key; mahogany case
Object number: DW0829
Distillation Products Industries
Date: circa 1940
Object number: 1998-1-0034
Date: 1890-1930
Object number: RS0508
Laboratoire de Physique, Faculté Libre de Lille
Date: circa 1890
Object number: DW0078
Carl Zeiss Jena
Date: circa 1926
Accessories: wooden box with two hook-and-eye latches to fasten front opening; in instrument file: instruction book (photocopy); Geissler tube labeled "H2"; carboard tube containing German thermometer C in stainless steel holder that screws into instrument; glass bottle with cork stopper labeled "Monobromnaphthalin, Germany nD=1 658"; small round cardboard box labeled "For Pulfrich Refractometer" containing one tubulure
Object number: 1996-1-0229
Date: 1890-1930
Object number: RS0505
