Accession No

4417

Brief Description

discharge tube, 1900 (c)

Origin

Maker

Class

physics

Earliest Date

1900

Latest Date

Inscription Date

Material

glass; wood; metal (copper)

Dimensions

height 199mm; base diameter 65mm bag of glass length 125mm; breadth 100mm; thickness 17mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased in Christie’s Nicholas Webster Collection sale, 26/09/1991, lot 90.

Inscription

Description Notes

Fancy glass tube with bulb head, in wooden stand. Has a sculpted copper bouquet design inside bulb. Bouquet painted with flourescent paint which glows when an electric current is passed through and mixes with the gas trapped inside the tube.

Condition: fine; complete.

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