Insulating stand: green glass rod on gilded base and wooden cap, Galvani collection
- Made:
- 1780-1798
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Insulating stand consisting of a green glass rod on a gilded base and fitted with a gilded wooden cap, Galvani collection. Supposedly this stand was salvaged from the fire that destroyed the Volta Exposition at Como (see technical file) and subsequently re-gilded.
Details
- Category:
- Electricity and Magnetism
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- 1990-253
- type:
- stand
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
