Early Physics Labs

.   The spectrometer room.  Of the two Ruhmkorff coils we have, the smaller Ruhmkorff coil can be seen just behind the Bunsen spectroscope. The polarimeter in the center of the picture was recently given to us by the chemistry department. The other instruments are no longer known to exist . Undated photo from the UVM Archives.

 
 

Undergraduate physics lab with the students in the foreground using magnetometers, one example survives today.  Students using Queen & co. tangent galvanometers can be seen off to the right in the picture. Seven of these exist in our collection. Undated photo from the UVM Archives.

 
 
 

Our Nalder Brothers tangent galvanometer is at the left in this picture of the advanced physics lab. The high table underneath it as well as the table supporting the galvanometer in the back left of the picture are currently used in the physics museum. The white blocks are 5" thick pieces of alberene, a kind of soapstone. This picture is from the 1905 - 06 UVM Bulletin, Department of Engineering.