Thermopile
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- OBJECT TYPE
- DIFFERENTIAL
- DATE
- 1900
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1992.2422.001
- 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
- NON-FERROUS METAL
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 15.5 cm
- Width
- 13.5 cm
- Height
- 32.1 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Physics
- Category
- Demonstration & teaching equipment
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
PART OF LARGE & VARIED COLLECTION OF OVER 7500 ELECTRICAL ITEMS ACQUIRED & DOCUMENTED BY ONTARIO HYDRO IN 1960S. COLLECTION WAS THOUGHT TO BE LARGEST & MOST COMPREHENSIVE IN CANADA & WAS DONATED TO NMST IN 1992. - Function
-
DEVICE CONSISTING OF SERIES OF THERMOCOUPLES, USED TO CONVERT RADIANT ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY & TO DETECT & MEASURE RADIANT ENERGY. - Technical
-
EXAMPLE OF DIFFERENTIAL THERMOPILE USED IN EXPERIMENTS ON RADIANT HEAT. INVENTEDBY ITALIAN PHYSICIST MACEDONIO MELLONI (1798-1854), THERMOPILE CONSISTS OF NUMBER OF THERMOCOUPLES (COUPLES OF DISSIMILAR METALS) JOINED TOGETHER & INSULATED FROM ONE ANOTHER. SEE SIMILAR EXAMPLES IN BAIRD & TATLOCK 1924 CATALOGUE (REF. 2). - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- NONE
- Missing
- APPEARS COMPLETE
- Finish
- FLAT BLACK PAINTED BASE/ GOLD COLOURED BODY
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Thermopile, circa 1900, Artifact no. 1992.2422, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1992.2422.001/
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