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Objekt 13

Isolated conductor

Description

Thanks to the insulation provided by the glass, the electricity generated by electrifying machines can be stored in the conductor. The device fulfills the same function as the somewhat younger "Leiden bottle".

Object description

around 1800

Brass rod with ball ends, green glass, wooden frame with tripod

probably from Ringier's apparatus, 1811

Deposit Institute of Physics of the University of Basel, Phys. 20.

Inv. 1986.462.

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