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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.

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