Details
Title Electrical Machine.
Title Electrostatic Machine
Date Ca. 1742-1747
Physical Description Walnut, glass, iron, leather ; 59 x 28 x 24 inches.
Is referenced by Talbott, Page, ed., Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World. New Haven and London: Yale University, 2005, p. 185.
Notes The Electrical Machine is a static energy generator that works by rubbing the leather pad against the spinning glass globe to produce a static electrical charge in the globe. Franklin owned this apparatus and used it in his experiments and demonstations.
LCP Minutes vol. 3, June 12, 1792, p. 312: Benjamin Franklin Bache presented to the Company the Machine, which Doctor Franklin first used to make Experiments in Electricity.
Gift of Benjamin Franklin Bache, 1792.
Exhibited in: University of Pennsylvania's exhibition, Benjamin Franklin Winston Churchill (1951); Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World (2005-2007).
Subject Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Electricity -- Experiments.
Associated name Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, former owner.
Location OBJ 609
Accession number OBJ 609