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Title |
Battery Demonstration Unit |
Object Name |
Battery, Electrical |
Object ID |
2006.050.058 |
Description |
Home-made demonstration unit; base is a square piece of black painted wood; on top of the base is a large black painted cork, two electrical terminals - one red one black, and a switch; battery cell is mounted into the cork and has two wires attached to the top, one red one black; the black wire is directly connected to the black terminal on the base; the red wire is first attached to the switch and then to the red terminal; a paper label is attached to the front indicating the battery cells make up. |
Dimensions |
H-4.75 W-3 D-2.75 inches |
Material |
Wood, Metal, Plastic, Cork, Rubber, Glass, Polymer, Metal, Paper, Liquid |
Digital Collections Link |
https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/1j6523d |
Search Terms |
Primary batteries Wet cell batteries Lithium cells Conducting polymers Electricity MacDiarmid, Alan G., 1927-2007 Nobel Prize winners Nobel Prizes Organic conductors |
Provenance |
The donor is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000 for "the discovery and development of conductive polymers" |