M0012616: Illustration of sixty-four leiden jar battery

Previous title, replaced August 2022: Battery of sixty-four Leiden jars used by Joseph Priestley.

Photograph of an illustration of a sixty-four leiden jar battery used by Joseph Priestley. This reproduction was made from Priestley, Joseph; The history and present state of electricity, with original experiments, London : Printed for C. Bathurst, and T. Lowndes, J. Rivington, and J. Johnson, etc., 1775. Related images: M0012615

July 1952

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds copies of the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.