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

A number of small Geissler tubes.

Geissler tubes

A number of small Geissler tubes.

Object Number:: 1983-592 Pt2

type:: tube

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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