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Wasn't some of this stuff in warehouse 13?
That electrical cord would be considered a safety hazard by today's standards hahahaaa
"Wooden Box with Multiple Terminals and Dials"
LOL. That is great. I've always wanted one, but my mom alywas said I'd dial my eye out...
Someone called me crazy once.
I said, "What about a pineapple?"
Bechstein Photometer.
"measured the luminosity of surfaces"
Sounds to me like someone was trying to make a device that was to measure photons from the surface at which it was focused on.
While similar in many respects Weston and Western are two totally different words related to two completely different companies.
This fellow made instruments:
www.westonmeter.org.uk/thecompany.htm
These folks made telephones:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Electric
Starting to see the difference?
Oh Yeah, the wooden heads!! Those are your institutionally standardized wooden heads. They were for the man who had everything.