What Is It?

[Wingnut]

I have a lot of strange and rare objects; so while they are collecting dust I decided to make a game of it and see if you can name that object!!!!!!


Look at the pictures and tell me what it is!


Can you tell me what it is used for?

[Rodster]

I got one out of two. the thing on the left is a bell.
Rodster

[Dachshund]

It's off an airplane....

[Wingnut]

It's off an airplane....


I was around long before man could fly

[jodyand]

telegraph machine?

[Byron R]

:trink40: I do not know ...but it looks like it has Levelers on the base..? Thumb knobs on the Transit looking Base...Wooden?... Maybe? Old Millwright Setup Tool ..Br, :trink40:

[Wingnut]

Its a Scientific Instrument used to measure _________, this is a mirrored versions there are needle versions.

[Byron R]

Was it used on a boat ?? Compice..?? Sexton??..Br,

[Dachshund]

I was around long before man could fly

I can PROVE it's off an airplane!

[Wingnut]

I can PROVE it's off an airplane!

Prove Galen! this model came out in 1870

[Dachshund]

Well - it ain't ON an airplane is it? ROF

[Wingnut]

It has to be used in a stable environment vibration would make it useless

[Byron R]

Do thumb knobs just hold front cover..?? How about a top view..?? Br,

[Wingnut]

Top view would give it away, it has to be level, You can see two Leveling knobs and to shield clamps (brass knobs).

Telegraph companies use them for calibration before they became obsolete.

The are rare because of the metals (gold, copper, brass) when scrapped they went to the smelter.

[Wingnut]

Here is kind of a top view of one from a private collection in Halle, Belgium


I have never seen any; except my own and I bought it for $15 not knowing what is was. I looked cool so I had to have it!

[HydroHarold]

So Wingnut, I guess it's not "Robbie the Robot's" father's head? His father was brass but Robbie came out "Stainless Steel", his mother was some loose slot machine in Ely, NV...

[Wingnut]

It was made by the Sullivan company.

Should I tell you what it is of wait until somebody gets it?

[Byron R]

Google brought up nothing that looked like that..Sullavan was ED... :fing20....Show us something else while we are working on this one: :fing32: Br,:

[Dachshund]

galvanometer?

[Wingnut]

galvanometer?

Thats it Galen a Mirror Galvanometer!!!!!!


Now what is it used for?

[Dachshund]

I had to call my Aunt in Waterloo Iowa. I knew my Uncle had something that looked close to that, but couldn't remember the name! :fing20:
Used to detect current flow.

[Wingnut]

ROF ROF Now that is wanting to win, calling Iowa (how many lifelines were left) ROF ROF

[HydroHarold]

So it measures the thickness of zink on galvanized steel... I thought so...

This is neat!!! Wingnut, what else you got to "Stump the Panel"?

[Wingnut]

So it measures the thickness of zink on galvanized steel... I thought so...

This is neat!!! Wingnut, what else you got to "Stump the Panel"?


ROF ROF

Tomorrow I will have a new item

[Byron R]

I was sure I could Tweek it to ..Do something usefull...WTH.....What is it...Br,

[Dachshund]

ROF ROF Now that is wanting to win, calling Iowa (how many lifelines were left) ROF ROF

Where's my $1,000,000? :hide:

I remembered seeing one on thier mantle and him telling me what it was, I just couldn't remember the name!
Buy the way it IS off an airplane! ROF ROF

[Carl]

Your $1,000,000 is being carefully invested in old and little known instruments, and in tractor renovations.

[Dachshund]

Your $1,000,000 is being carefully invested in old and little known instruments, and in tractor renovations.


I know - I'll just donate it to this site! Where's my bumper sticker? ROF

[Byron R]

I'll send ya one still trying to figure out what it was used for..Br, :trink39:

[Dachshund]

I'll send ya one still trying to figure out what it was used for..Br, :trink39:

Think of it as an early version of a voltmeter or ammeter....
It couldn't tell you a measurement, but that electricity was there.

[Byron R]

Fusebox??

[Wingnut]

It measure the presents of electricity. It could no tell you amps or volts it was primative, it was used to calibrate Telegraph lines every 15 miles you had to have a telegraph station or repeater, Wires were not created equal then so you used a galvanometer to check electrical pulse through the lines.

[jodyand]

So i was in the right ball park ROF

[Wingnut]

So i was in the right ball park ROF


you were real close :fing32:

[Wingnut]

Galen your uncle might have retrieved out of an airplane, but it was never part of an airplane. Any vibration would give a false reading and it had to be level in order for it to work. It very sensative and fragle if I were you I would try to get uncles!