M0014807: Canton's pithball electrometer

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

M0014807: Canton's pithball electrometer

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