Electric Egg
name: label: maker
content: Max Kohl
notes: label: Description
content: An electric egg demonstrates luminous effects produced by electrical discharges in rarified gases. The phenomenon was noticed by natural philosophers in the seventeenth century. The form became popular in the nineteenth century. This example came from the University of Alabama. The inscription on the base reads “Max Kohl, Chemnitz.”
label: Description
content: Ref: E. S. Fischer, <i>Elements of Natural Philosophy</i> (Boston, 1827), p. 637.
label: Description
content: Max Kohl, <i>Physical Apparatus</i> (Chemnitz, [1912]), p. 406.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Saxony, Chemnitz
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: University of Alabama
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.325959
label: catalog number
content: 325959
label: accession number
content: 317854
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electric egg
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 3/8 in x 5 in x 4 1/4 in; 39.0525 cm x 12.7 cm x 10.795 cm