Musée Edouard Branly

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

The Musée Edouard Branly is a museum dedicated to the work of radio pioneer Edouard 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.

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

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Coordinates: 48°50′56″N 2°19′46″E / 48.84889°N 2.32944°E / 48.84889; 2.32944


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