Cotton's scale

Structura mecanismului
Funcţie	This scale has two bakelite pans, one fixed and one mobile. The mobile pan, which moves about an axis supported by two brass feet, features a copper wire around the edge of one of its halves. At the other end is a small mobile weight on a threaded shaft for balancing.
Dimensiunea mecanismului	plan
mişcarea de antrenare	Rotaţie
Mişcarea elementului de ieşire	Rotaţie
Posibilitatea unei rotaţii complete	da
Posibilitatea unei relaţii complete a elementului de intrare	da

Funcţia de transfer
Mimişcarea de ieşire	rotitor

Aplicaţie
Exemple de aplicare	It enables the demonstration of the influence of a magnetic field on a conductor through which a current flows. The coil subjected to the magnetic field of a magnet unbalances the scale when fed by a current. It was used by future teachers in their studies at the Men's and Women's teacher training schools in Clermont-Ferrand, now the IUFM (University Teacher Training Institute)

Permanent links

DMG-Lib		https://www.dmg-lib.org/dmglib/handler?mcdsc=2793025
Europeana		http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020801/dmglib_handler_mcdsc_2793025.html