Hare's Electrical Machine
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Form/Genre: Engraving
Date: 1863
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 41, Folder 5
Dr. Robert Hare's Electrical Machine which was displayed in the Apparatus Room in the Smithsonian Institution Building. A professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, Hare donated his collection of chemical and physical apparatus to the Institution in 1848. Hare had constructed this machine himself.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Located on page 26 of the Guide to the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, Philadelphia, Collins, Printer, 1863.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 41, Folder 5
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1863
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Color: Black and white; Size: 5 1/2 x 9; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Engraving