Joseph Henry's Albany Magnet with its Battery and Apparatus for Measuring its Strength

ID: MAH-46797F or 46,797-F

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Drawing

Date: 1831

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 11-006

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Summary

Drawing of Joseph Henry's Albany magnet with its battery and apparatus for measuring its strength. Henry, who would later become the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was the first to construct an electromagnet formed by tightly wrapping multiple coils of an insulated conducting wire around an iron bar.

Subject

Henry, Joseph 1797-1878

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

From Silliman's American Journal of Science 19 (January 1831): 408.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 11-006

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1831

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Scientific apparatus and instruments
  • Secretaries
  • Inventions
  • Science
  • Electromagnets
  • Scientific illustration
  • Magnets
  • Electromagnetism

Place

  • Albany (N.Y.)
  • United States

Form/Genre

  • Drawing
  • Negative
  • Scientific illustration

ID Number

MAH-46797F or 46,797-F

Physical description

Number of Images: 1 ; Color: Black and White ; Size: 5w x 7h ; Type of Image: Drawing ; Medium: Negative

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