Ten-Cell Grove Battery
W. Ladd & Co., London, England
about 1880
Overall: 8 7/16 × 21 5/8 × 4 1/2 in. (21.5 × 55 × 11.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
2002.1.35420
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Scientific Instrument
Research Area
Scientific Instrument
Scientific Instrument: Electricity
Not on view
Exhibition History
Mind and Hand, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 31, 2001-May 31, 2003.
Mind and Hand, MIT Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 31, 2001-May 21, 2003.
Publication History
David Pantalony, Richard L. Kremer, Francis J. Manasek, Study, Measure, Experiment: Stories of Scientific Instruments at Dartmouth College, Norwich, Vermont: Terra Nova Press, 2005, p. 154-6, ill.
Provenance
Source unknown; catalogued into the Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, 2002.
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