Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10653
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Electrical machine and Leyden jar batteries at Teyler’s Museum
Date
1795
Creator
Barend de Backer (Dutch) , Engraver
After
Wybrand Hendriks (1744 - 1831, Dutch) , Painter
Object type
Library reference
44043
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 298mm
width (print): 480mm
width (print): 480mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Study of the augmented electrostatic generator with batteries of Leyden jars. 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 5 from Tweede vervolg der proefneemingen gedaan met Teyler’s electrizeer-machine by Martinus van Marum (Haarlemn, 1795).
The plate is inscribed “Pl.V. W. Hendriks, delin. B: de Bakker fecit.”
Martin van Marum was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1798.
Plate 5 from Tweede vervolg der proefneemingen gedaan met Teyler’s electrizeer-machine by Martinus van Marum (Haarlemn, 1795).
The plate is inscribed “Pl.V. W. Hendriks, delin. B: de Bakker fecit.”
Martin van Marum was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1798.
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