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Accessories for Twin Drum Wimshurst Electrostatic Machine by Dollond, London, c.1900

Inventory Number 58270


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.58270

Item type
Object
Makers
Dollond
Provenance
Pres. by King James College, Henley-on-Thames per Mrs. Parkins Part of a collection of physics apparatus donated by King James College including, primarily, a Wimshurst Machine (acc. 1982-6), a turbine (1982-7) an air pump (1982-8) and a clamp (1982-10)
Dimensions
Height: 357mm Width: 357mm Depth: 160mm Weight: 4.55kg
Inventory No
58270
Accession Number
1982-6/2-8

Description

A wooden table with four glass legs. Two wooden square plates with a red coil on each, both have two copper alloy pegs attached to the top of them. A wooden stand with a thin copper alloy tube attached. A wooden rod with handle coated in a rubber like material. A copper alloy tube with a Bone handled adjustment screw. A wooden shelf with two circular holes, one containing a broken glass tube filled with metal shavings and a wooden stop with what looks like gold dust on the inside of the tube. The other hole is empty. The piece of the tube is present with a copper alloy rod and red wood stopper. Two Leyden Jars and an envelope containing five clips for the Wimshurst machine.