galvanoscope
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Show others how your galvanoscope can detect: whether a battery is producing current, which way the current is flowing, and whether a current is strong or weak.
From Electricity for the 4-H Scientist Idaho Agricultural Extension Service Bulletin 396, June, 1962 by Wilson, Eric B.
The Galvanoscope.—By having a coil of insulated wire, with a magnet suspended so as to turn freely within the coil, forming what is called a galvanoscope.
From Electricity for Boys by Zerbe, James Slough
At this moment the circuit of the galvanoscope, K, is closed, and we ascertain whether there is a deviation of the needle.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 by Various
Broadly speaking, a galvanoscope is an instrument that detects the presence of electric currents.
From Electricity for the 4-H Scientist Idaho Agricultural Extension Service Bulletin 396, June, 1962 by Wilson, Eric B.
We shall complete our enumeration of the measuring apparatus by citing Ducretet's non-oscillating galvanometer, Sir William Thomson's amperemeters, voltameters, ohmmeters, and mhosmeters, constructed and exhibited by Breguet, and a new aperiodic galvanoscope of Mr. Maiche.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various
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