Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10652
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    Improved electrical machine at Teyler’s Museum

    Date
    1795
    Creator
    Izaac Jansz. de Wit (1744 - 1809, Dutch) , Engraver
    After
    Wybrand Hendriks (1744 - 1831, Dutch) , Painter
    Object type
    Library reference
    44043
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 206mm
    width (print): 500mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Study of the augmented electrostatic generator with conducting rods shown demonstrating an electrical arc discharge. The original machine was designed by John Cuthbertson (bap.1743-d.1821) for Martin van Marum and installed at Teyler’s Museum at Haarlem in the Netherlands.

    Plate 1 from Tweede vervolg der proefneemingen gedaan met Teyler’s electrizeer-machine by Martinus van Marum (Haarlemn, 1795).

    The plate is inscribed “Pl.I. W. Hendriks, delin. Is. de Wit Janzs sculp.”

    Martin van Marum was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1798.
    Associated place
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