General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

SYNTHETIC CASING/ METAL CONTROL PANEL WITH SYNTHETIC CONTROLS/ GLASS WINDOW/METAL & SYNTHETIC WORKING PARTS

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

15.0 cm

Width

7.9 cm

Height

6.8 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Energy-electric

Category

Measurement

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Simpson

Country

United States of America

State/Province

Illinois

City

Chicago

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

Unknown

Canada

EXAMPLE OF EQUIPMENT USED AT LARGEST RESEARCH INSTITUTION IN CANADA DURING PERIOD OF ITS MOST RAPID GROWTH, GREATEST PRODUCTIVITY & DURING WHICH IT DEVELOPED WORLD RENOWNED REPUTATION.

Function

INSTRUMENT USED TO MEASURE & INDICATE RATE OF FLOW OF ELECTRIC CURRENT, IN THIS CASE IN MILLIAMPERES.

Technical

ACCORDING TO ONE DISTRUBUTOR, THIS METER PROVIDES FOR DC CURRENT MEASUREMENTS FROM.02 TO 1000 MA, & WAS IDEAL FOR RADIO SERVICING & EXPERIMENTAL WORK; CHECKING BURGLAR ALARM CIRCUITS, RAILROAD SIGNAL SYSTEMS, TELEPHONE WORK ETC. (REF. 1).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

BLACK LETTERING ON WHITE DIAL FACE READS "PAT. NO. 2,051,399 SIMPSON ELECTRIC CO. CHICAGO ILL. U.S.A./ DIRECT CURRENT/ MILLIAMPERES/ MODEL 373" WITH SCALE MARKINGS & NUMBERS FOR 0-25, 0-100, 0-50 AMPERES/ RED "Simpson" IN SCRIPT ON CONTROL PANEL/ WHITE "MODEL 373" & NUMBERS FOR DIAL SETTINGS "1/ 5/ 10/ 25/ 50/ 100/ 250/ 500/ 1000/ SHORT" ON CONTROL PANEL

Missing

APPEARS COMPLETE From CA of 01/09/2002 by Matthew Bruce: No - appears complete

Finish

BLACK CASING & CONTROLS/ COLOURLESS, TRANSPARENT GLASS

Decoration

N/A