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Metal rectangular box for Wimshurst Machine, by King, Mendham & Co., Bristol, c.1890

Inventory Number 11097


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.11097

Item type
Object
Dimensions
Height: 80mm Width: 245mm Depth: 145mm Weight: 1450g
Inventory No
11097

Description

Metal rectangular box for accessories for Wimshurst machine by King, Mendham & Co.; containing twenty-two items, including one small glass leyden jar with lid, one brown coloured cylindrical attachment with copper alloy ball on one end, one copper alloy T-bar with one larger and smaller sphere, one needle pointed implement, four chains with hooks, one circular chain, one X-shaped metal attachment with four hooks called an 'electric whirl', two silver coloured metal G-clamps, two copper alloy attachments with spheres on the ends, one black handled tool with copper alloy end and O-shaped hook, one silver coloured metal post, two copper alloy screw thread knobs and two wooden wedges.