Cuthbertsons elektrometer

International names:

Electrometer

Danish Instrument Inventory text:

Electrometer. Cuthbertson's discharge. Mahogany base 460x145x30. 3 glass pillars Dia20. Centre pillar carries brass balance beam L400 ending in 2 brass spheres Dia31. One side of the beam has a sliding brass weight; engraves scale 0-60. The two other pillars have stationary brass spheres repelling and attracting charges resp.Signed: Inv. Cuthbertson / Poland Street / No 54 / 18051805

• Category: Electricity
• Hauch number: K108
• Inventory number: 6971
• Danish Instrument Inventory number: 1723

• Hauch references:
• Begynd.grund: §497
• Cabinet 1: 0 47

• Literature:

• Cuthbertson(1799)
  

  Bibl.Phys.Med.Oecon.1800 bd.17 s.383
  

  Hackmann(1978) fig.18