M0014807: Canton's pithball electrometer

Previous title, replaced October 2021: Canton's pithball electrometer.

Illustration of Canton's pithball electrometer originally published in Philosophical Transactions, volume 48, 1754 and reproduced in Walker, Cameron: "The detection and estimation of electric charges in the Eighteenth Century", Annals of Science, vol.1, 1936

July 1956

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.