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Galvanometer

noun
1.
Meter for detecting or comparing or measuring small electric currents.



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"Galvanometer" Quotes from Famous Books



... there was a sensitized film placed on a similar wooden drum. This was to receive the image that came over the five hundred miles of wire. Now then, as the electrical needle, moving across the copper plate, made electrical contacts of different degrees of strength, it worked a delicate galvanometer on the receiving end. The galvanometer caused a beam of light to vary—to grow brighter or dimmer, according as the electrical current was stronger or weaker. And this light, falling on the sensitive plate, made a picture, just like the one on the copper plate ...
— Tom Swift and his Photo Telephone • Victor Appleton

... was connected with a galvanometer, the other with a voltaic battery of ten pairs of plates four inches square, with double coppers and well charged; yet not the slightest sensible reflection of the ...
— Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 • Michael Faraday



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