Science and Technology

How do modern galvanometers differ from the first of these instruments?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/do-modern-galvanometers-differ-first-these-instruments-214307.html" >How do modern galvanometers differ from the first of these instruments?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

In the first galvanometers, a freely turning magnetic needle was hung in a coil of wire; in later versions the magnet was fixed and the coil made movable. Modern galvanometers are of this movable-coil type and are called d'Arsonval galvanometers (after Arsène d'Arsonval, a French physicist).

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about galvanometer . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: How do current galvanometers differ from early versions? How are modern galvanometers different from early versions of the instrument? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.