Galvanometers and the many lives of scientific instruments
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Connelly, Charlotte https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9350-044X
Chang, Hasok https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1287-4509
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Electrical measuring tools now epitomise ‘black-boxed’ technologies. Since the second half of the nineteenth century, ammeters and voltmeters have been developed that the user could apparently simply connect up to their electrical circuitry and read off a number giving them a measure of current or voltage. It seems that a clear majority of those who use electrical measuring instruments today lack any clear or detailed understanding of the theoretical principles and material designs inside the black boxes which they rely on so readily.
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Galvanometers and the many lives of scientific instruments
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The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Objects and Investigations, to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to the University of Cambridge
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Cambridge University Press
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9781108633628