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Objekt 6

Ball electrifying machine (fragment)

Description

By supplying electricity, the silk threads inside the glass ball are charged, they repel each other and are spread apart.

Object description

probably 18th century

Glass, wood as replacement for missing metal spindle, metal mounting parts

Deposit Institute of Physics of the University of Basel, Phys. o. Nr.

Inv. 1986.455.

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