Small Wimshurst machine

Made:: 1885-1934 in unknown

maker:: Unidentified

Small Wimshurst machine, with a number of small Geissler tubes.

Details

Category:: Science Teaching

Object Number:: 1983-592

type:: wimshurst machine with some small geissler tubes

credit:: Pitt-Bayly, M.

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Small Wimshurst machine

Small Wimshurst machine

Small Wimshurst machine.

Object Number:: 1983-592 Pt1

type:: wimshurst machine

Image ©: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Geissler tubes

Geissler tubes

A number of small Geissler tubes.

Object Number:: 1983-592 Pt2

type:: tube

Geissler tube

Geissler tube

Geissler tube (separated from main group of Geissler tubes to record that it is radioactive).

Object Number:: 1983-592 Pt3

type:: radioactive material

Geissler tube

Geissler tube

Geissler tube (separated from main group of Geissler tubes to record that it is radioactive).

Object Number:: 1983-592 Pt4

type:: radioactive material

Geissler tube

Geissler tube

Geissler tube (separated from main group of Geissler tubes to record that it is radioactive).

Object Number:: 1983-592 Pt5

type:: radioactive material

Geissler tube

Geissler tube

Geissler tube (separated from main group of Geissler tubes to record that it is radioactive).

Object Number:: 1983-592 Pt6

type:: radioactive material

Geissler tube

Geissler tube

Geissler tube (separated from main group of Geissler tubes to record that it is radioactive).

Object Number:: 1983-592 Pt7

type:: radioactive material

Geissler tube

Geissler tube

Geissler tube (separated from main group of Geissler tubes to record that it is radioactive).

Object Number:: 1983-592 Pt8

type:: radioactive material

Geissler tube

Geissler tube

Geissler tube (separated from main group of Geissler tubes to record that it is radioactive).

Object Number:: 1983-592 Pt9

type:: radioactive material