M0014546: The decomposition of water by means of the battery, designed by William Cruikshank in c.1800 / M0014547: Electrotherapy by means of a Voltaic pile

Previous title, replaced January 2022: The decomposition of water by means of the battery.

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Electrotherapy by means of a Voltaic pile.

Two images on one negative: illustrations published in Carpue, J. C.: An introduction to electricity and galvanism; with cases, shewing their effects in the cure of diseases, London : A. Phillips (etc.), 1803. The apparatus devised by Cuthbertson, the instrument maker, worked when an intermittent current, provided by a clockwork mechanism, raised and lowerd a conductiong rod.

March 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 2022.

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