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                                 Image number: RS.10640
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            Apparatus for electrical experiments
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                                1785
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Barend de Backer (Dutch) , Engraver
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                44039
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (print): 265mm
width (print): 475mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 475mm
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                                Six figures showing equipment intended to investigate electric arcs including (figure 4) a Leyden jar. Experiments designed and made by Martin van Marum at Teyler’s Museum at Haarlem in the Netherlands. 
Plate 5 from Beschryving eene ongemeen groote electrizeer-machine geplaatst in Teyler’s Museum...by Martinus van Marum (Haarlemn, 1785).
The plate is inscribed upper right: ‘Pl. III’; and below “C.H.Koning Fecit.
Martin van Marum was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1798.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Plate 5 from Beschryving eene ongemeen groote electrizeer-machine geplaatst in Teyler’s Museum...by Martinus van Marum (Haarlemn, 1785).
The plate is inscribed upper right: ‘Pl. III’; and below “C.H.Koning Fecit.
Martin van Marum was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1798.
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