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Astatic galvanometer, Nobili pattern
    • Setting:
      Room XVI
    • Inventor:
      Leopoldo Nobili
    • Maker:
      T. Gourjon
    • Place:
      Paris
    • Date:
      1840
    • Materials:
      brass, glass, steel
    • Dimensions:
      height 235 mm, diameter 160 mm
    • Inventory:
      1417
    • Astatic galvanometer, Nobili pattern (Inv. 1417)
    • Astatic galvanometer, Nobili pattern (Inv. 1417)

Nobili - pattern galvanometer composed of a brass base with three leveling screws carrying a glass cylinder. The system of astatic needles is secured at the top of the cylinder. The coil has many windings of thin wire and carries a paper scale. It is rotated by a handle. The base ring carries the name of the maker—T. Gourjon, about whom we have little information—and the words "Galvanometro del Matteucci / 1840 / Corrente Muscolare" ["Matteucci's Galvanometer / 1840 / Muscle Current"]. Carlo Matteucci used this instrument in his studies of currents in wounded muscle fibers. Provenance: Lorraine collections.