A 20th-Century Wimshurst-pattern electrostatic generating machine
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A 20th-Century Wimshurst-pattern electrostatic generating machine

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A 20th-Century Wimshurst-pattern electrostatic generating machine
with a plaque for GRIFFIN & TATLOCK Ltd. LONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW MANCHESTER BIRMINGHAM: Standley Belcher & Mason Ltd. MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN, with two 30cm. diameter perspex plates, each with thirty contacts, a moving arm with two silver-coloured brushes and a fixed perspex arm with two pairs of copper brushes, one of each with a chain to the leyden jars, with bakelite turning handle and two bakelite-handled contact arms with ball ends, on a pine base -- 35.5cm. (14in.) wide

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