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Shelfmark: 20124-0000 Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM  (Paris France) Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: instrument
Dimension: H.: 9,5; W.: 8; L.: 17; Mass: 130 g.
 
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Thematic group: Instruments 
Type: apparatus
Abstract: Electrical sparking apparatus in brass and glass, with two uprights on a horizontal, supported at its mid-point by another horizontal carrying a third upright. The first two uprights, one of brass and the other of glass, carry arms (brass) with ball-end (brass). All three uprights slide in slots with clamping-screws below.
 
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    chronology A Chronology of Lavoisier's Career. Prepared by Maurice Daumas, Henry Guerlac and Carl Perrin. Edited by Marco Beretta
 event  (1780): Lavoisier acquires several instruments related to experiments on electricity....

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Person City Cronology   Position
name: -
name: Paris
date/range: 1952
date of: donation
epoch: 20 (2°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
resp.: owner
name: Paris
date/range: 1780
date of: manufacture
epoch: 18 (2°)
 
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Discipline Topic Argument

Physics Apparatus Electricity