Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11564

    Magnetometer

    Date
    1871
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (drawing): 129mm
    width (drawing): 152mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Study of a 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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