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Description: | L.E.S.81. (old departmental catalogue number in aluminium paint). E35 (0ld departmental catlogue number in black cellire. N.P.243 (written on a preprinted Hunterian Museum label: removed). MANU Unsigned. 19th century DES after VOLTA,Alessandro,Giuseppe,Anastasio,Count. 1775 Como, Italy. This rather large eight and a half inch copper cover was used to collect, store and transfer static electric charges from one piece of apparatus to another. The copper cover has glass handle , was rested on a non conducting electrophorous, which was made of a disc of materials such as glass or ebonite, possibly fitted into a metal tray. | 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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