Kipp’s devices
Years : 1940-1950-1960
The Kipp’s device is used to prepare gases in a lab.
Aerometers
Bought in 1945
Aerometers, also called densimeters, measure liquids density.
Poggendorff-Grenet’s pile
Register number:53
Catalogue number: 2559
Bought in 1948
This pile supplies electric current by using two coal layers.
Engler’s viscosimeter
Made by Carlo Erba Strumentazioni
Register number: 134063
Catalogne number: 2047
Bought in 1953
This equipment measure a liquid relative viscosity by using 20°C distilled water as a comparison.
Hellige’s calorimetric comparator
Made by Fritz Hellige & Co.CMBH
Register number: 1536
Catalogue number: 3577
Bought in 1960
It determines the concentration of a substance in a solution.
Abbe’s refractometer
Made by Officine Galileo- Florence
Register number: 51475
Catalogue number: 3043
Bought in 1960
This devise measures the substances refraction index.
Hoppler’s viscosimeter
Made by Gebruder Haake- Berlin
Register number: BH 60421 – DIN 53015
Catalogue number: 3639
Bought in 1960
This device is used to establish liquids dynamic viscosity.
Polarimeter
Made by Officine Galileo – Florence
Register number: 59686
Catalogue number: 29
Bought in 1939
This device measures the substances rotatory power.
Device for “mechanical paradox”
Catalogue number: 1044
Bought in 1948
Device used to verify that any body which can move freely, brings its gravity centre downward.
Electric Arc Lamp
Made by MWD
Catalogue number: 646
Bought in 1935
Device used to trigger off a bright discharge between two coal electrodes kept at a constant
dinstance.
Coulomb’s balance
Year: around 1880
Device used to calculate the interaction power between electric charges.
Magdeburgh’s hemispheres
Catalogue number: 438
Year: 1886
Device used to show that the atmospherical pressure exists.
Nobili’s astatic galvanometer
Made by: unknown
Year: 1925
Device used to calculate the electric current intensity.
Four coils differential galvanometer
Made by: unknown
Year: around 1910
Device used to calculate differences in current intensity.
Demonstration universal galvanometer
Made by Zambelli – Turin
Year: 1949
This device is used to calculate very weak current intensities: it only works with direct current.
Newton’s Tube
Made by: unknown
Year: 1902
It is a device used to study the free fall of bodies.
Mohr-Westphal’s hydrostatic balance
Made by Officine Galileo- Sartorius
Register number:
Catalogue number:
Bought in
This device measures liquids density.
Berthelot-Maler’s calorimeter
Register number: 70825
Catalogue number: 1873
Bought in 1960
It is useful to measure any fuel heating power.
Malligand’s ebulliometer
Made by Doc. Eng.C.Bullio
Register number: 2453
Catalogue number:
Bought in 1958
This device measures the alcoholic degree of dry wines on the principle that hydroalcoholic
mixtures shw a boiling temperature lower than the one of water proportionally to their alcohol
content.
Hoffman’s voltameter
Catalogue number: 1650
Bought in 1954
It is used to study electrolysis laws.
Elettromagnetic Amperometer
Made by Officine Galileo – Florence
Register number: 520874 (class I)
Bought around the year 1950
Device used to calculate circuits intensity in direct and alternating current.
Inclined Plane
Made by Officine Galileo – Florence
Bought around the year 1940
Device used to study the balance of a body on an inclined plane.
Hydrostatic balance
Catalogue number: 454
Bought in 1892
Device used to verify Archimedes’ principle in an experimental way.
Slide Rheostat
Made by Officine Galileo – Florence
Bought around the year 1930
Double slide rheostat
Made by Gebr Ruhstrat-Gottinghen
Register number: 5117
Catalogue number: 605
Bought around the year 1930
Devices that allow to change the tension or the current value in electric circuits.
Weston’s sample pile
Made by Weston Instruments – Berlin
Register number: 5457
Catalogue number: 526
Bought in 1913
Electromotive device used for high precision tension measures with opposition method.
Deprez – D’arsonval’s Galvanometer
Catalogue number: 531
Bought in 1921
It is used for microampere current measures.
Column Volta’s pile
Year:1933
The first electromotive device.
Spherometer
Made by Officine Galileo – Florence
Register number: 100138
Year:1925
It is a device which measures thin layers thickness and the bending spherical surfaces ray.
Ruhmkorff’s Coil
Made by Ptetffer Wetzeler
Year: 1911
It is used to generate great potential differences.
Mobile coil portable galvanometer
Made by Elliot Bros – London
Register number: 5138
Bought in 1907
Very weak current calculating device.
Electromagnetic voltmeter
Made by Officine Galileo – Florence
Register number: 109782
Bought in 1949
Device for tension measures in direct or alternating current circuits.
Beckman’s spectrophometer
Catalogue number: 2106
Bought in 1964
This device is used to compare the intensity of a spectrum line with the ones in a sample-spectrum
which was obtained from a known light intensity source.
Kirchoff-Bunsen’s spectroscope
Made by G.B. Paravia – Turin
Catalogue number:3556
Bought in 1965
The device is used to establish the monochromatic components of a lighting radiation.
Beckmann’s differential thermometer
Bought in 1955
Psycometer
Made by Engineers Calderara-Bossi
Register number: 19
Catalogue number: 2528
Bought in 1950
Device used to calculate water vapour content in the environment.
Fabrics dynamometer
Made by Luigi Zambelli Co.
Catalogue number: 218
Bought in 1945
Hand - planofil
It is useful to establish a fabric section regularity and its hairiness.
Hand – loom
Catalogue number: 1346
Bought around the year 1945
It is supplied with a jacquard machine to make a shed which allows to realize 96 yarns drawings
through the reading of the weaving memorized on punched cards.