Objekt 10
Electric carillon
Description
Of the three bells, the two outer ones are mounted on electricity-conducting brass rods, the middle one on an insulating glass rod. Due to the attraction and repulsion of the electric charges, small weights suspended on threads move between the bells and strike them.
Object description
around 1800
Bronze (bells), brass, glass, wooden base
from Ringier's apparatus, 1811
Deposit Institute of Physics of the University of Basel, Phys. 10/1.
Inv. 1986.459.