✅ SOLVED Strange Electrical Device

[mojjax]

Any ideas what this is for . I has adjustable feet .

 

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[DeepseekerADS]

May take a bit more searching, but here's what I've found thus far:

Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)

Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

 

[creskol]

Potentiometer?

or maybe an

Optical Galvanometer


http://nistdigitalarchives.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15421coll3/id/407

 

[4x4x4]

....Well , the LAST owner , Carel corporation is still in business . .

The Carel Corporation - About Us

 

[mojjax]

Thank you deep-s creskol & 4x4 . I decided to take the paint off today , because , I like shiny things . beautiful brass under the ugly black paint .

 

[Les Simmons]

I know this says solved but this may be of scientific historical value seeing that this document is in the Yale Peabody Museum Operating Directions for Rubicon Microvolt Potentiometer with Compensator, serial number 96366. Six yellow pages bound in Rubicon Company folder. Created by Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company, Rubicon Instruments, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Instrume

Department: Historical Scientific Instruments

 

[mojjax]

May take a bit more searching, but here's what I've found thus far:

Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)

Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Thank You , Nice link . My Dad worked at Camp Century in the early 60's - it was in Greenland . He told me some interesting stories .

 

[mojjax]

link

 

[The_Piratess]

At least they were eating well... Now put the one up about Antarctica with some of this please.