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Portable plate electrical machine
This plate frictional electrical machine is similar to, but smaller than, item inv. 2705. One of a set of four machines used to demonstrate the effects of different materials on the polarity of the generated charge, positive or negative. According to the 1776 catalogue of the Museo di Fisica e Storia [...]
Creator
- Europeana
Publisher
- Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Subject
- electrical engineering
Type of item
- Electrostatic machine
- generators
Providing institution
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Rights
- © Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Creation date
- ca. 1775
- 1775~
- 1775~
- 1775
- 1775
Places
- English?
Identifier
- urn:imss:instrument:414022
Extent
- total height 445 mm, base (excluding conductor) 305x137 mm, glass disk diameter 340 mm, thickness 4.6 mm
Language
- eng
- ita
Is part of
- Lorraine collection
References
- http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/biography/TimothyLane.html
Year
- 1775
Providing country
- Italy