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Shelfmark: 20109-0000 Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM  (Paris France) Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: instrument
Dimension: H.: 17; Diam.: 7; Mass: 60 g.
 
Component's data
Thematic group: Instruments 
Type: apparatus
Abstract: A Henly's quadrant electrometer, by G. Adams, London. The protractor reads in degrees and seems to be made of ivory on wood. The usual light-rod with attached cork ball is missing.
 
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Person City Cronology   Position
name: -
name: Paris
date/range: 1952
date of: donation
epoch: 20 (2°)
name: George Adams
resp.: maker
name: London
date/range: 1780
date of: manufacture
epoch: 18 (2°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
resp.: owner
name: -
date/range: 1780
date of: manufacture
epoch: 18 (2°)
 
Subject/s
Discipline Topic Argument

Physics Apparatus Electricity

 
Digital version:  1  Image/s
mckie_215

 

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