Electromagnetic induction


 

 

 

 

 

 

   

TOOTHED WHEEL INTERRUPTER

 
 School
  Castelvì (1),   Spano (2)
(1)

  Function
  To obtain pulsating currents.
Maker:
(1) Paravia - Torino
(2) Officine Galileo - Florence
Price:
L
6
L 75
Purchase date:
1923
1931

  Description
  An iron frame on which a toothed wheel can rotate thanks to a crank, is placed on a wooden basis. A thin layer fixed on the wooden basis pushes against the wheel. The thin layer and the wheel are connected to two binding posts. By turning the wheel we obtain a pulsating current from a direct current.

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PALMIERI’S APPARATUS

 
 School
  Spano

  Function
  To show the currents induced by the terrestrial magnetic field.
Maker:
Officine Galileo - Florence
Price: L 250 Purchase date: 1931

  Description
  It is formed by a 30 cm diameter circular wooden frame, with hundred turns of insulated copper wire.
  The two ends of the coil are connected with a ring collector, that works as a rectifier of the alternate current in its medium part.
  The frame is applied to the rotational apparatus.
  If we lay the two brushes on the extreme edges of the collector, we obtain an alternate current; if we lay them on the medium part, we obtain an induced rectified current.

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WALTENHOFEN’S PENDULUM

 
 School
  Spano

  Function
  It is the most simple apparatus that is used to enhance the production of eddy currents on the metallic conductor masses that move in a magnetic field.
Maker:
Officine Galileo - Florence
Price: L 350 Purchase date: 1931

  Description
  A copper disk, hanging between the field poles of an electromagnet, can freely oscillate for long time when the magnetic field does not exist; but if we excite the electromagnet, the disk stops as if it met with a strong friction when crossing the magnetic field, and if we try to move the disk, we have the same impression as if it moved in a viscous liquid. This does not happen if we place a disk with radial cuts, that prevent the formation of the induced eddy currents. The two field poles turn on the cores of the electromagnet. They are conical on one side, so that we can modify the extension and therefore the field intensity with a 180 degrees rotation.

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ARAGO’S EXPERIMENTS

 
 School
  Spano

  Function
  To study the eddy currents.
Maker:
Officine Galileo - Florence
Price: L 350 Purchase date: 1931

  Description
  A copper disk is placed in rotation with the rotational apparatus. Just over the disk we place a glass plate on which there is a magnetic needle turning on a vertical axis corresponding to that of the copper disk.
  We note that the needle is dragged by the rotation. This is due to the eddy currents induced on the disk and to Lenz’s law.

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MODEL OF INDUCTION COIL WITH VARIABLE INDUCTANCE

 
 School
  Spano

  Function
  To show the functioning of an induction coil.
Maker:
Officine Galileo - Florence
Price: L 215 Purchase date: 1931

  Description
  The mutual induction between two coaxial coils sliding along a common axis changes with their position. It is very big, when they interpenetrate one another and the flux generated by one is completely linked to the other.
  On the basis there are the primary circuit with its removable core and a hammer switch. The secondary circuit is sliding between two guides and it can be used separately, as its binding posts are assembled on its ends.

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INDUCTION COILS WITHOUT CONDENSER

 
 School
  Università (1),   Spano (2),   Castelvì (3),   Pellegrini (4)
(2)

  Function
  To obtain high voltages.
Maker:
(1) Unsigned
(2) Officine Galileo - Florence
(3) Unsigned
(4) Unsigned
Price:
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L 2500
L 275
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Purchase date:
-
1931
1927
-

  Description
  (2)The apparatus is made of two coaxial coils placed one (primary or inductor) inside the other (secondary or inducted).
  The primary is made of a small number of turns of big wire, while the secondary is made of a great number of turns of thin wires and ends with a spark gap.
  An iron core, made with wires of iron insulated to reduce the eddy currents, is present inside the coils.
  The primary is connected to a generator of continuous current at low tension. By opening and closing the circuit with a certain frequency we create an induced tension on the secondary that can produce very long electric sparks.
  The apparatus produces sparks of 20-25 cm. The inductor is longer than the secondary circuit to obtain a greater flux linkage and a higher efficiency.
  To use with an electrolytic switch inserted directly on the network or disposed in series with a rheostat.

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ELECTRO-MAGNETO ELECTRIC MACHINE

 
 School
  Azuni

  Function
  To obtain high voltages.
Maker:
Jest - Turin
Price: L 300 Purchase date: Cat. 1862

  Description
  The apparatus is formed by a circuit with an electromagnet and the primary circuit of a coil. Two thin layers that complete it with a simple contact are part of the circuit. The ensemble is placed in a wooden case.
  By closing the circuit a thin layer is attracted by the electromagnet interrupting the contact and opening the circuit. This provokes the demagnetisation of the electromagnet and for this the circuit closes and so on...
  In fact in the primary circuit we have a pulsating current that creates an induced current in the secondary circuit.
  The binding posts for the connection of the input voltage and the output voltage are placed on the external side of the case.

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VARIABLE RATIO REDUCING TRANSFORMER

 
 School
  Spano

  Function
  To pass from high to low voltage and vice versa.
Maker:
Officine Galileo - Florence
Price: L 500 Purchase date: 1931

  Description
  It is a demonstrating apparatus dismountable in all its parts.
  The core of 3-tenth-thin layers is formed by two prismatic blocks leaning so as to form a magnetic rectangular circuit.
  The lower part of the core holds the four basis feet and two screw hangers that are used to fix the second block.
  The lower branch of the core holds the primary circuit that, in turn, can reduce the voltage or work to as an autotransformer.
  On the parallel branch the secondary circuit is wound in different sections according to the number of turns, and disposed so that the voltage at the ends of the consecutive sections assumes the values: 1,2,3,4,5,10,15,20,50.
  For the primary circuit, used as an autotransformer, we can have a 50 V voltage.

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ELIHU THOMSON’S ELECTRODYNAMIC REPULSION APPARATUS

 
 School
  Spano

  Function
  To study the electromagnetic phenomena.
Maker:
Officine Galileo - Florence
Price: L 450 Purchase date: 1931

  Description
  The apparatus includes:
  1. a great vertical coil of 800 turns of 0.9 mm wire with a long core formed by a sheaf of varnished ductile iron wires, placed on a wooden basis that supports a shelf for the different accessories at medium height of the coil. The ends of the coil finish with two binding posts completely protected by an ebonite covering to avoid short circuits;
  2. a hollow coil wound with eighty turns of 0.5 mm wires closed on a 15-20 V incandescent lamp;
  3. a 8 mm copper wire ring, welded in silver;
  4. a very thick aluminium ring of very small resistance;
  5. a little copper annular boiler with a glass discharge tube;
  6. an aluminium disk turning on its axis with a brass fork with a handle;
  7. a half copper disk that is used as a partial screen of the magnetic field.
  The coil must be supplied with alternate voltage of 115-150 V, but only for very short experiments. It is convenient to insert a rheostat in the circuit to regulate the current intensity.

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