Joseph Henry's Albany Magnet with its Battery and Apparatus for Measuring its Strength
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Form/Genre: Drawing
Date: 1831
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 11-006
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.
Henry, Joseph 1797-1878
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
From Silliman's American Journal of Science 19 (January 1831): 408.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 11-006
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1831
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MAH-46797F or 46,797-F
Number of Images: 1 ; Color: Black and White ; Size: 5w x 7h ; Type of Image: Drawing ; Medium: Negative