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Description: | L.E.S.79. (old departmental catalogue number in aluminium paint). N.P.241 (written on a preprinted Hunterian Museum label: removed). MANU Unsigned. circa 1900 DES after VOLTA,Alessandro,Giuseppe,Anastasio,Count. 1775 Como, Italy. This a six inch brass cover for an electrophorous which was used to collect, store and transfer static electric charges from one piece of apparatus to another. The brass cover, which has an ebonite handle and a small spherical electrode attached to the brass plate, was rested on a non conducting electrophorous which was made of a disc of materials such as glass or ebonite and fitted the tinplate 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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