Musée Edouard Branly

The Musée Édouard Branly is a museum dedicated to the work of radio pioneer Édouard 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.[1]

Plaque at the Musée Édouard Branly on rue d'Assas in Paris

The museum contains the research laboratory and equipment used by Édouard 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.

See also

References
  1. Michael Zils - Museums of the World: Afghanistan-Swaziland - 2001 Page 192 ISBN 3598206089 "Musée Édouard-Branly. 21 Rue d'As Paris - T: 0149545220"
  • Musée Edouard Branly - Institut Catholique de Paris
  • Paris.org entry
  • ParisInfo entry
  • Jean-Claude Boudenot, Comment Branly a découvert la radio, EDP Sciences Editions, 2005, page 53. ISBN 2-86883-839-1.
  • Musée Branly: appareils et matériaux d'expériences, Association des amis d'Edouard Branly, Musée Branly, 1997.

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