110 histórias, 110 objetos (110 anos do Técnico)

Aron’s electricity meter is one of the pioneering instruments that, at the end of the 19th century, allowed to efficiently measure and record the amount of electric energy consumed by each user. It worked with “remarkable precision”, and was the “first electricity meter that really worked well”. Maybe that’s why the object won a competition in 1885 for the purchase of the first 100 electricity meters for a Berlin neighbourhood. Only Thomas Edison, with far more experience in the field, was competing against Hermann Aron. The secular object can be found in the Faraday Museum, at Técnico – Alameda campus.

• Acknowledgements:
  Joaquim Moreno
  Moisés Piedade
  Museu Faraday

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