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    A galvanometer is an electromechanical measuring instrument for electric current. Early galvanometers were uncalibrated, but improved versions, called...
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    A ballistic galvanometer is a type of sensitive galvanometer; commonly a mirror galvanometer. Unlike a current-measuring galvanometer, the moving part...
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    A mirror galvanometer is an ammeter that indicates it has sensed an electric current by deflecting a light beam with a mirror. The beam of light projected...
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    A string galvanometer is a sensitive fast-responding measuring instrument that uses a single fine filament of wire suspended in a strong magnetic field...
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  • A vibration galvanometer is a type of mirror galvanometer, usually with a coil suspended in the gap of a magnet or with a permanent magnet suspended in...
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    adjusted until the bridge is "balanced" and no current flows through the galvanometer Vg. At this point, the potential difference between the two midpoints...
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    scale in proportion to the voltage measured and can be built from a galvanometer and series resistor. Meters using amplifiers can measure tiny voltages...
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    E-meter (redirect from Psycho-galvanometer)
    than has ever been built before, under the trademarked name of Physio-galvanometer, or O-Meter. It has very little in common with the old type E-Meter....
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  • galvanoscope, frog galvanometer, rheoscopic frog, and frog electroscope. The device is properly called a galvanoscope rather than galvanometer since the latter...
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    The thermo-galvanometer is an instrument for measuring small electric currents. It was invented by William Duddell about 1900. The following is a description...
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  • of the galvanometer is observed and the sliding tap adjusted until the galvanometer no longer deflects from zero. At that point the galvanometer draws...
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    of meter movement known as a 'ratiometer'. These were similar to the galvanometer type movement encountered in later instruments, but instead of hairsprings...
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    In 1825 he developed the astatic galvanometer. Nobili's Galvanometer Schematics of Nobili's Galvanometer Galvanometer on display at MHS Geneva He worked...
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    professional use. It consists of a housing that contains lasers, mirrors, galvanometer scanners, and other optical components. A laser projector may contain...
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    Beginning in 1901, Einthoven completed a series of prototypes of a string galvanometer. This device used a very thin filament of conductive wire passing between...
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    from 1907. The first moving-pointer current-detecting device was the galvanometer in 1820. These were used to measure resistance and voltage by using a...
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    required. While waiting for the next voyage, he developed his mirror galvanometer, an extremely sensitive instrument, much better than any until then....
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    French physician, physicist and inventor of the moving-coil D'Arsonval galvanometer and the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor...
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  • favorite. The movie was reported to be the only Hindi movie to have galvanometer in its core plot. Ajay Chandra, a young man (Amitabh Bachchan), has big...
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    galvanometer was invented by the French engineer Clément Ader. In 1901, Einthoven, working in Leiden, the Netherlands, used the string galvanometer:...
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    some electrical effect on the opposite side. He plugged one wire into a galvanometer, and watched it as he connected the other wire to a battery. He saw a...
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  • scanner or so-called resonant galvanometer scanners - or to a freely addressable motion, as in servo-controlled galvanometer scanners. One also uses the...
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    high-speed recorder used beams of ultraviolet light reflected off mirror galvanometers, directed at light-sensitive paper. The earliest instruments derived...
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    When it is moved in or out of the large coil (B), its magnetic field induces a momentary voltage in the coil, which is detected by the galvanometer (G)....
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    deflect a compass needle. In the same year Johann Schweigger invented the galvanometer, with a coil of wire around a compass, that could be used as a sensitive...
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    day to send a message despite the use of the highly sensitive mirror galvanometer developed by William Thomson (the future Lord Kelvin) before being destroyed...
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    axis. The result is that the galvanometer registers no current. The disc and magnet are spun together. The galvanometer registers a current, as it did...
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    interactions (this is not piezoelectricity). In 1825 he invented a differential galvanometer for the accurate measurement of electrical resistance. In 1829 he invented...
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    silicon or CdS sensors. They indicate the exposure either with a needle galvanometer or on an LCD screen. Many modern consumer still and video cameras include...
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  • wire EF has a jockey contact D placed along it and is slid until the galvanometer G measures zero. The thick-bordered areas are thick copper busbars of...
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