Bennet's elektrometer

International names:

Electroscope

Danish Instrument Inventory text:

Electroscope. Bennet's gold leaf electrometer. Brass house Dia38 H100. Lower half unscrews to reveal inner glass Dia27. Tweezers for gold leaves unscrews with the conductor, which is just a small brass cylinder.Not signedc1800 (g)

• Category: Electricity
• Hauch number: K023
• Inventory number: 6930
• Danish Instrument Inventory number: 1713

• Hauch references:
• Begynd.grund: §497
• Cabinet 1: 0 44

• Literature:

• Bennet(1787) p.26

  Riess(1853) I p.59

  Hessler-Pisko(1866) I p.472

  Walker(1936) p.87

  Hackmann(1978) p.21