Collection of Electrical Engineering Instruments

The Collection is kept in building 9 of the University Campus in Viale delle Scienze and includes a large quantity of equipment of considerable historical and scientific interest, used for teaching and research starting from the last twenty years of the 19th century.
It includes, among other things, a Kohlrausch Voltmeter and Ammeter from 1887, a Deprez Galvanometer from 1888, an Industrial Mantle Transformer from the Ganz company from 1899, Samples of inductors and resistors from the early 1900s, a Three-phase Mercury Vapor Rectifier from the 1930s, a Tektronix Valve Cathode Tube Oscilloscope from 1959.
The instrumentation is currently being catalogued. The first cataloguing action is concluded and the cataloguing cards of the first 100 instruments can be consulted on the website of the General Catalogue of Cultural Heritage of the Italian Ministry of Culture, thanks to the collaboration of the scientific director, prof. Liliana Mineo and the staff of UNIPA Heritage – University Museum System.

The Collection of Electrical Engineering Instruments, of the Department of Engineering, has its origins in the former Institutes of Electrical Engineering and Technical Physics of the Royal School of Application for Engineers, originally located in the former Convent of the Martorana via Maqueda, where the first courses of Technical Physics were held and, subsequently, those of Electrical Engineering, Electrical Measurements and Electrical Systems.

Viale delle Scienze, building 9 - 90128 Palermo

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