Skip to content
History of Science Museum

Arc Light Clockwork, by Duboscq, Paris, After 1840?

Inventory Number 74406


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.74406

Item type
Object
Provenance
Donated by Clarendon Laboratory
Primary inscriptions
Signed:"J. Dubosq à Paris APPAREIL BREVETE S.G.D.G. no. 130"
Physical material
Metal
Rubber(?)
Object type
Arc light
Dimensions
Height: 497mm Width: 124mm Depth: 163mm Weight: 4.55kg
Inventory No
74406

Description

Consisting of a rectangular clockwork with milled knobs on either side and a cylindrical arm on top. Standing on three

pillars, with two balancing coils underneath on a circular base.