Glass cylinder electrostatic machine on wooden base
Glass cylinder electrostatic machine on wooden (probably mahogany) base with rubbing pad on glass support and wooden handle
Cylinder electrostatic machine for medical use, made by G. Adams, Fleet Street, London, 1792, with T-shaped prime conductor, discharging (Lane) electrometer for prime conductor, glass-legged stool, Leyden jar, discharger with glass handle, large and small brass clamps, small double Leyden jar, and miscellaneous other parts including broken remnants. It was owned and used by Dr George Fletcher, M.D., who practiced for 42 years at Chesterfield, and was given to the Museum by his youngest and last surviving child, Mrs. Mary Anne Nodder, in 1889.
Glass cylinder electrostatic machine on wooden (probably mahogany) base with rubbing pad on glass support and wooden handle
Insulating stool, wooden top (probably mahogany) on glass legs. In remarkably good shape.
Discharger, glass handle with straight brass rod ending in brass ball
Large brass clamp
Discharging Lane electrometer for fitting to prime conductor. Mounts into a small hole on the top. The balls and the rod between them are not original, but were made in 1955 to complete the unit.
Small brass clamp
Double Leyden jar (two small Leyden jars that can be joined base to base)
Two spherical conductors coated with tinfoil
Remnants from broken Leyden jar, including its discharging electrometer (the jar that broke, according to the tech file sometime before 1953, was the larger medical bottle in the early photos), and miscellaneous small parts including containers for amalgam (some with amalgam inside), empty glass bottle formerly holding mercury, wire on spools, two pieces of wire that may be part of smaller Leyden ...
Glass curved discharger, from cylinder electrostatic machine for medical use, made by G. Adams, Fleet Street, London, 1792
Long chain from accessories for cylinder electrostatic machine for medical use, made by G. Adams, Fleet Street, London, 1792
Short chain from accessories for cylinder electrostatic machine for medical use, made by G. Adams, Fleet Street, London, 1792