Name/Title
Universal DischargerEntry/Object ID
2013.3.84Description
The museum has two dischargers. In one the discharge platform is of wood and in the other it is of glass. Dischargers were common pieces of apparatus in the early laboratory. The quote from an early encyclopedia, "...universal discharger of very extensive use in forming communications between jars or directing the shock through any particular substance." (Vol. VI, 3rd Ed., Encyclopedia Britannica, 1788-97.)Collection
Moosnick Museum - Scientific Apparatus