Jord og måne

International names:

Electrical orrery

Danish Instrument Inventory text:

Electric discharge to atmosphere. Leaded brass base Dia100. Baluster shaped glass stand Dia45-20 H150. Brass point at the top H200. Brass sphere Dia65 balances on this point on its inside. A brass rod L260 protrudes horizontally from the sphere and has at the end a small (10mm) brass point from which an electric discharge can make the system rotate. Overall H440.Not signed1800 app (g)

• Category: Electricity
• Hauch number: K037
• Inventory number: 7372
• Danish Instrument Inventory number: 2262

• Hauch references:
• Begynd.grund: §498
• Cabinet 1: 0

• Literature:
• The King George III Collection: E197

• Gütle(1790) pl.X fig.51

  Svendsen81794) I p.66