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This is Paper 38 from the Smithsonian Institution United StatesNational Museum Bulletin 240, comprising Papers 34-44, which willalso be available as a complete e-book.
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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
BULLETIN 240
SMITHSONIAN PRESS
MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY
Contributions
From the
Museum
of History and
Technology
Papers 34-44
On Science and Technology
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION · WASHINGTON, D.C. 1966
Publications of the United States National Museum
The scholarly and scientific publications of the United States National Museuminclude two series, Proceedings of the United States National Museum and United StatesNational Museum Bulletin.
In these series, the Museum publishes original articles and monographs dealingwith the collections and work of its constituent museums—The Museum of NaturalHistory and the Museum of History and Technology—setting forth newly acquiredfacts in the fields of anthropology, biology, history, geology, and technology. Copiesof each publication are distributed to libraries, to cultural and scientific organizations,and to specialists and others interested in the different subjects.
The Proceedings, begun in 1878, are intended for the publication, in separateform, of shorter papers from the Museum of Natural History. These are gatheredin volumes, octavo in size, with the publication date of each paper recorded in thetable of contents of the volume.
In the Bulletin series, the first of which was issued in 1875, appear longer, separatepublications consisting of monographs (occasionally in several parts) and volumesin which are collected works on related subjects. Bulletins are either octavo orquarto in size, depending on the needs of the presentation. Since 1902 papers relatingto the botanical collections of the Museum of Natural History have beenpublished in the Bulletin series under the heading Contributions from the United StatesNational Herbarium, and since 1959, in Bulletins titled “Contributions from the Museumof History and Technology,” have been gathered shorter papers relating to the collectionsand research of that Museum.
The present collection of Contributions, Papers 34-44, comprises Bulletin 240.Each of these papers has been previously published in separate form. The year ofpublication is shown on the last page of each paper.
Frank A. Taylor
Director, United States National Museum
Contributions from
The Museum of History and Technology:
Paper 38
The Earliest Electromagnetic Instruments
Robert A. Chipman
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