Name/Title
Electric SportsmanEntry/Object ID
2013.3.24Description
The following quotation is from Watkins & Hill (A Descriptive Catalogue, etc., London, 1836): "This amusing apparatus consists of a carved figure represented in the act of shooting, and a Leyden jar having two wires of different lengths applied to its cap. On the end of the longer wire small pith birds are suspended by threads. When the shorter wire is within striking distance of the muzzle of the sportsman's gun, and the inside of the jar is in communication with the prime conductor of the machine in full action, the birds fly off, but the instant a discharge takes place the pith birds fall as if shot."
Our sportsman lacks his gun and is displayed without the Leyden jar.Collection
Moosnick Museum - Scientific Apparatus
