Image: Western Union standard galvanometer
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Description: Drawing of tangent galvanometer from around 1890, made by J.H. Bunnel Co. Base 7 in. diameter. This was a type known as a 'Western Union standard'. It has 5 separate coils of resistance ~0, 1, 10, 50, and 150 ohms. The 7/8 in. compass needle in the center can have a silk fiber suspension.
Title: Western Union standard galvanometer
Credit: Downloaded from Lockwood, Thomas D. (1890) Electrical Measurement and the Galvanometer: It's construction and uses, 2nd Ed., J.H. Bunnel & Co., New York, p.36, fig.11 on Google Books
Author: Thomas Dixon Lockwood
Permission: Public domain - published in US before 1923
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