Musée Edouard Branly

{{Short description|Museum in Paris, France}}

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The Musée Édouard Branly ({{IPA|fr|myze ədwaʁ bʁɑ̃li}}) 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.Michael Zils - Museums of the World: Afghanistan-Swaziland - 2001 Page 192 {{ISBN|3598206089}} "Musée Édouard-Branly. 21 Rue d'As Paris - T: 0149545220"

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.