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Woolrich generator of 1844 at Birmingham Science Museum. John Stephens Woolrich (1821-1850) of Birmingham was the first to effect large-scale electrodeposition of metals using magneto-electric machines. His machine was based on the discovery of induction by Michael Faraday (1791-1867). It was constructed in 1844 by Messrs. Prime & Son, another firm of Birmingham electroplaters and for many years was used at their electroplating works. The generator was powered by steam and was the forerunner of dynamo machines. The Woolrich generator is now [2013] on display in the We Made It exhibition at Thinktank, Birmingham, with an interactive demonstrating its function. [Sources: Michael Faraday and The Royal Institution: The Genius of Man and Place, by J.M Thomas (1991); Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology. edited by Lance Day & Ian McNeil (1996); History of Technology, Volume 31; edited by Ian Inkste (2012)] The now closed Museum of Science and Industry, was in a building on Newhall Street, Birmingham, previously the Elkington Silver Electroplating Works. It became the science museum of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery in 1951 until its closure in 1997. Many exhibits were then moved to Thinktank which later opened as an entrance-fee-based exhibition in Millennium Point in Eastside, in September 2001. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Museum_of_Science_and_Te... Camera Olympus OM10, scanned from 35mm slide. |
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