-40%

1890 WESTON Direct Read ELECTRICAL INSTRUMENT 125 VOLTMETER Gauge NEWARK 1st Gen

$ 343.2

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Maker: Weston Direct Reading Laboratory Standard
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Original/Reproduction: Original

    Description

    An exemplar example First generation from 1890 Model 125
    "Edward Weston and the Weston Electrical Instrument Company introduced the first portable and direct-reading current and voltage meters in 1888-1893. Weston's inventions enabling these meters included: the first truly permanent magnets; temperature-insensitive conductors; low-resistance and non-magnetic springs; metal coil frames where induced eddy currents provided pointer damping (1887); the electric shunt (1893) for the measurement of large currents; and multiple current ranges in a single meter."
    rarely if ever will you get an opportunity to obtain electrical history like this in this condition
    measures 16 x 16"