They ’ve been a mainstay of Sci - Fi props for year but you ’ll be hard press to find someone on the street that can distinguish you what they actually do . They ’re Mercury Arc Rectifiers and our friends atOobjecthave collected nine of the just .
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A three phase , six anode mercury arc rectifier , formerly used at a 600V DC traction substation of the Athens - Piraeus railroad

Household Mercury Arc Rectifier
Mercury rectifier on showing in Beromunster , Switzerland
Mercury Vapour Arc Rectifier from University of Aberdeen Collection

Rectifier at the Cengelhan Koc Museum in Turkey
Rectifier from Type 80 Early Warning Radar System
The two hydrargyrum discharge rectifiers at Kempton Steam Museum , London

Twin Mercury Arc Rectifiers from the Doncaster Odeon picture house
Working Mercury Arc Rectifier
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