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Recording voltmeter

Object No. H6579

Recording voltmeter, leather / wood / metal / glass / paper, J H Holmes & Co, Newcastle, England, date unknown

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Summary

Physical Description

Recording voltmeter, J H Holmes & Co, Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK Materials: leater / wood / metal / glass / paper

PRODUCTION

Notes

The maker, a company started by John Henry Holmes, was an early manufacturer of electric dynamos. Holmes also invented the standard 'make or break' light switch. Murday's patent made chart recordings easier to read by making the time axis linear rather than curved.

HISTORY

Notes

The voltmeter was used for teaching and/or research at the University of Sydney.

SOURCE

Credit Line

Gift of J Brown, 1959

Acquisition Date

7 September 1959

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