Accession No

4419

Brief Description

Barlow’s Wheel, demonstration electric motor, mid-late 19th C

Origin

Maker

Class

electrical; demonstration

Earliest Date

1830

Latest Date

1900

Inscription Date

Material

wood (mahogany); metal (brass, steel and one other)

Dimensions

length 225mm; breadth 130mm; height 170mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased in Christie’s Nicholas Webster Collection sale, 26/09/1991, lot 197.

Inscription

Description Notes

Mahogany base with brass pillar supporting a spiked wheel which hangs vertically from a clamp screw by which its height is adjustable. Wheel hangs above a groove in the wood of the base. Either side of the groove are wooden bars against which two bar magnets lie. Two brass terminals lie in the corners at either side of the brass pillar. From one of the terminals a wire leads to the underside of the central groove and from the other a wire leads to the brass pillar.

Condition good; complete

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