Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11563

    Magnetometer

    Date
    1871
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (drawing): 143mm
    width (drawing): 228mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Study of a Kew pattern unifilar magnetometer, an instrument used to measure the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field.

    Illustration for the book Outlines of magnetism and electricity, for public schools and science and art examinations; being notes of a course of lectures delivered at the Royal School of Naval Architecture, with an introduction on the first principles of physics, by William Fletcher Barrett (London, Bell & Daldy, 1871).

    Sir William Fletcher Barrett (1844-1925) physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1899.
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