Accession No

1649

Brief Description

electroscope, gold-leaf, made in the Cavendish Laboratory, 1899

Origin

England; Cambridge; Cavendish Laboratory

Maker

Class

electrical

Earliest Date

1899

Latest Date

1899

Inscription Date

Material

metal (iron, brass, gold); glass; plastic (ebonite); cork

Dimensions

height 203mm; breadth 91mm; base diameter 81mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. It is recorded in the Cavendish Laboratory's 1894 alphabetical catalogue of apparatus on p.59, described as being made in the lab "(Hawkles)" in 1899.

Inscription

‘E.488.A’ (on base (added))

Description Notes

Circular iron base; brass standard; horizontal-axis cylindrical brass case with circular glazed windows front and back; vertical brass rod passes through ebonite insulator at top of case; lower end of rod connected to brass rectangular plate and gold-leaf; sliding earthing plate at side of case; tube at opposite side containing cork. No inscriptions.

Condition: fair (cork broken); incomplete (gold leaf missing).

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