Early Edison System Ampere Meter
$2,850.00
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Large, beautiful 60 amp Edison Ampere Meter — a mainstay of world’s earliest central power stations. The meter dates to the late 1880’s or early 1890’s and was designed to regulate the commercial distribution of electricity.
The meter is in excellent condition throughout. It’s also original throughout (including the etched glass front panel), with only normal signs of wear consistent with age and authenticity, but no evidence of abuse or neglect, and no evidence of the heat-related damage that shuttered the original Pearl Street facility after a plant-wide fire in 1890.
The meter arm swings freely and still responds to direct current when a power source is connected to the bolts on the bottom of the housing. The paper dial is crisp, legible and undamaged.
The Ampere Meter has not been cleaned up, it has not been refurbished, nor has it otherwise been restored. It is, in its present state, wonderfully pristine and a remarkable, eminently displayable artifact of the earliest days of electrical lighting.
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