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Description: | LES.56 (old departmental catalogue number in aluminium paint). E.45 (old departmental catalogue number in black cellire). 86 (old Kelvin bequest number written on a small paper label). MANU unsigned circa 1850 DES after VOLTA,Alessandro,Giuseppe,Anastasio,Count. 1777 Como Italy This is a small brass cannon mounted on a lead weighted wooden base by an insulating glass stem. Designed by Volta to ignite a mixture of air and hydrogen by an electrostatic spark it was used by him to demonstrate that the ignition product was water. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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