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What is a galvanometer?

What is a galvanometer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (physics) A device used to indicate the presence and direction of a small electric current, especially used to detect a null or balanced condition in a bridge circuit.
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Using a thermopile and galvanometer, he demonstrated that UV rays from an arc lamp are several orders of magnitude more lethal than visible rays.
This was balanced by a potentiometer arrangement, so that the galvanometer spot came to zero.
Line Test: when pressing on the A group key, the galvanometer must indicate 10µA per receiver connected.
In 1902, a Dutch physiologist published the first ECG recorded with his 270-kg machine, the string galvanometer, for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize.
By means of a potentiometer the galvanometer spot may be brought back to the original position.
Evidence of animal electricity was given about 1840 by Carlo Matteucci, using the astatic galvanometer invented by Leopoldo Nobili.

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