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

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

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

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