Wildman Whitehouse
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Edward Orange Wildman Whitehouse was an English surgeon by profession and an electrical experimenter by avocation. He was recruited by entrepreneur Cyrus West Field as Chief Electrician to work on the
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Mirror galvanometer
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A mirror galvanometer is an ammeter that indicates it has sensed an electric current by deflecting a light beam with a mirror. The beam of light projected on a scale acts as a long massless pointer. I
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…business, it was beset with the problems that Thomson had foreseen. Whitehouse's inadequate apparatus had to be replaced by Thomson's more sensitive mirror galvanometer but Whitehouse then ruined the cable by delivering massive shocks of an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 volts via induction coils in an attempt to rectify…
Thomson mirror galvanometer of tripod type, from around 1900
Galvanometer by H.W. Sullivan, London. Late 19th or early 20th century. This galvanometer was used at the transatlantic cable station, Halifax, NS, Canada
Modern mirror galvanometer from Scanlab
A moving coil galvanometer with its glass cover separated and mirror absent