M0014518: Henley's quadrant electrometer, connected to a Leyden jar and 'Thunder house'

Date:
February 1956
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/129/63
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M0014518: Henley's quadrant electrometer, connected to a Leyden jar and 'Thunder house'. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced January 2022: Henley's quadrant electrometer.

Description

Illustration published in Henley, William: Experiments concerning the different efficacy of pointed and blunted rods, in securing buildings against the stroke of lightning, London : Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1774

Publication/Creation

February 1956

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/A/38829

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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