Orsted’s Apparatus

Description

A kit of magnets and accessories in a storage tray.

Contents :

1. One Horseshoe magnet, 100 mm, with keepers.Two ceramic bar magnets, 75 mm long. 2. Three ceramic ring magnets, 38 mm diameter 3. Two plotting compasses clear both sides, 19 mm diameter 4. One lodestone specimen. 5. One pack Iron Filing. 6. One each strip of Iron, Aluminium, Zinc and Copper metal.

Description

This apparatus spins an electrically charged brass wheel spin, without the aid of a motor. When the wheel electrified by a voltage source (battery), the slotted brass disc sets up eddy currents throughout the structure. This electricity is then attracted to 4 strong neodymium magnets, causing the wheel to spin.

Description

Revolving in pivots, with a graduated quadrant, rotatable on a base marked every 45°.

Description

A former with terminals and engraved circle marked 0 – 180° – 0 figured every 45°, wound with 30 turns of insulated copper wire, complete with a magnetic needle 75 mm long and a pivot for the needle.