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Danish Instrument Inventory text:

Lightning tube. Double glass tube, outer Dia25 L700 terminating in brass fittings, at one end with ring for suspension, at the other with a brass sphere Dia25. On the inner tube is fastened a spiral of small diamond shaped tin foils, creating a "lightning" of sparks.Not signed1800 app (g)

• Category: Electricity
• Hauch number: K055
• Inventory number: 7430
• Danish Instrument Inventory number: 2294

• Hauch references:
• Begynd.grund: §513
• Cabinet 1: 0

• Literature:
• The King George III Collection: E206
• Cataloque of Mechanical Instruments, Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze: 3,184

• Adams(1785) pl.III fig.31