Improved electrical machine at Teyler's Museum mb-code PG-7870-37956 in the helmet of Victory

in the helmet of Victory

formerly a debtors' prison

16th June 1958

towering high above the galleries

Impr: Lith

Improved electrical machine at Teyler's Museum mb-code PG-7870-37956 in the helmet of VictoryStudy of the augmented electrostatic generator with conducting rods shown demonstrating an electrical arc discharge. The original machine was designed by John Cuthbertson (bap. 1743 d. 1821) for Martin van Marum and installed at Teyler's Museum at Haarlem in the Netherlands. Plate 1 from Tweede vervolg der proefneemingen gedaan met Teyler's electrizeer machine by Martinus van Marum (Haarlemn, 1795). The plate is inscribed 'Pl. I. W. Hendriks, delin.