Cylinder frictional electrical machine

Made:: 1801-1838

maker:: Richard & George Knight

Fragments of broken cylinder from cylinder frictional electrical machine, formerly the property of Erasmus Darwin, brother of Charles Darwin

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Category:: Electricity and Magnetism

Object Number:: 1914-86/4

type:: frictional electrical machine

credit:: Darwin, Lady

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Cylinder frictional electrical machine

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