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Nobili's version of Faraday's continuously rotating wire apparatus
    • Setting:
      Room XIII
    • Inventor:
      Leopoldo Nobili
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      ca. 1830
    • Materials:
      boxwood, iron, brass, copper, zinc
    • Dimensions:
      total height 62 mm, diameter 55 mm
    • Inventory:
      450
    • Nobili's version of Faraday's continuously rotating wire apparatus (Inv. 450)
    • Nobili's version of Faraday's continuously rotating wire apparatus (Inv. 450)

An incomplete specimen of the apparatus designed by Leopoldo Nobili to repeat the experiment invented by Michael Faraday on the rotation of conductors. There are two parts: the lower is a Voltaic battery in which the electrolyte (acidified water) is poured; the upper carried an upright cylindrical magnet with a light mobile conductor (missing). Provenance: Lorraine collections.