Commutator
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- OBJECT TYPE
- ANALOG/ELECTROMECHANICAL/ROCKET
- DATE
- 1963
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1989.0057.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- ALL METAL
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 17.9 cm
- Width
- 8.7 cm
- Height
- 3.7 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Space Technology
- Category
- Space science
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- C. 1963
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
USED IN ROCKET PAYLOAD TO SEQUENTIALLY SAMPLE VOLTAGES REPRESENTING DATA FROM VARIOUS ONBOARD SENSORS & EXPERIMENTAL OUTPUTS, BOTH PRIOR TO & DURING ACTUAL ROCKET FLIGHT. DATA WAS TRANSMITTED TO GROUND, RECORDED & DISPLAYED IN REAL TIME FOR SCIENTISTS TO FOLLOW LAUNCH SEQUENCE (REF 1). - Technical
-
ELECTROMECHANICAL COMMUTATORS WERE USED IN EARLIER VERSIONS OF ROCKET PAYLOADS BUT WERE LATER REPLACED BY TRANSISTORIZEDVERSIONS (REF 1) - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- N/A
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- BRUSHED & BRASS COLOURED METAL
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Commutator, 1963, Artifact no. 1989.0057, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1989.0057.001/
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