Title
Weston Electrical Voltmeter, 1898
Reference
UK0108 OPC/1/186
Date
1898
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Scope and Content
This Weston Electrical Instrument Co, Newark, New Jersey, USA voltmeter has a certificate number 2056. Its full title is a Weston standard portable alternating & direct current voltmeter. The certificate, pasted into the wooden box housing the voltmeter says that it was standardized at 101 St Martin's Lane, London on 11 November 1898 and was certified by A C Heap.
A panel on the voltmeter says that it was patented August 5 1890, no. 433637, reissued June 28 1892, no. 11250 and patented 11 November 1890, no. 440289 and no. 440290.
See also a Weston made wattmeter at OPC/1/82.
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Admin. history/Biography
Company founded by the British-born American electrical engineer and industrialist, Edward Weston, in 1888.
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