Distinguished Men of Science

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

Battery of Leyden jars made by Henry Cavendish

Volta-type eudiometer

Burning glasses, 18th century

Replica of Cavendish's Eudiometer 1781

Photographs of balances used by wellknown chemists

Circumferentor by J. Sisson of London

Dip circle used by Henry Cavendish

Coloured drawing of Cavendish's experiment on the combination of atmospheric nitrogen and oxygen by the passage of electric sparks, 1785

Photograph of a balance used by Cavendish

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