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Trough Battery, English, c. 1830

Inventory Number 85887


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.85887

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by the Frome Literary and Scientific Institution, Somerset.
Primary inscriptions
Handwritten museum identification label "Galvanic Trough | Pres. by Frome Soc."
Object type
Battery
Inventory No
85887
Accession Number
?1939-2

Description

A wooden trough with 50 compartments. The pairs of copper and zinc sheets are connected at the top so that they can be removed from the trough.