M0014522: Bennett's drawing of the gold-leaf electroscope, 1787

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Bennett's drawing of the gold-leaf electroscope, 1787.

Reproduction of a drawing by Bennett published in Walker, W. Cameron: "The detection and estimation of electric charges in the eighteenth century", Annals of science, vol.1 (1936). The original manuscript is held by the Royal Society.

February 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.

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