Musée Edouard Branly
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Musée Edouard Branly is a museum dedicated to the work of radio pioneer Edouard Branly (1844-1940). It is located in the 6th arrondissement at the Institut Catholique de Paris-ISEP, 21, rue d'Assas, Paris, France, and open by appointment only.
The museum contains the research laboratory and equipment used by Edouard Branly, a physics professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris and inventor of the first widely used radio receiver, the Branly coherer circa 1884-1886. Its collection includes a number of early devices used in wireless experiments, such as electrolytic detectors, insulated tubes filled with metal filings, a Righi oscillator, generators, electromagnets, metallic blades mounted on glass, electrical contacts, and a column of six steel balls stacked in a glass cylinder.
[edit] See also
- Musée du quai Branly, an art museum
- List of museums in Paris
[edit] References
- Musée Edouard Branly
- Paris.org entry
- ParisInfo entry
- Jean-Claude Boudenot, Comment Branly a découvert la radio, EDP Sciences Editions, 2005, page 53. ISBN 2868838391.
- Musée Branly: appareils et matériaux d'expériences, Association des amis d'Edouard Branly, Musée Branly, 1997.
