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Description: | LES.38. (old departmental catalogue number in aluminium paint). MANU unsigned. 19th century This one of a pair of insulating tables or stools. It has a wooden platform and four glass legs. The legs have been hand made and are fitted to the base board using wooden battens and brass screws most of which are counter sunk and filled over. The ends of the legs have ground edges. The table was used for insulating conductors and leyden jars etc in electrostatic demonstrations. The base board has a 20mm hole drilled in it to accept the supporting rods of some of the above apparatus. | 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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