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View a database of our collection. Commentary
on our collection: A - Electrostatics These are the 18 artifact categories at The Bakken. Items can belong to more than one category. We have roughly 2500 artifacts. An electrostatic kit from the 18th century would be listed as a generator, a storage case, electrodes, a Leyden jar -- whatever was in the box the kit lived in. Here on the Web, we'll list things by their most noticeable attribute. You can learn a lot about a collection by studying the categories it is sorted into. We'll be adding links as time goes on: pictures, essays, commentary. Clicking on a link will take you to something relevant. Enjoy our Work In Progress. And remember: if we show you a picture, it's from our collection. If it's a picture of an object, the object is in our collection. (A note about the pictures: many of them were taken years ago, in black-and-white. Some are more modern, in color. Some are even portraits of a kind, taken by professionals. Expect diversity.) If you would like to consult the Curator of Instruments about an instrument or artifact that you own, please send me an email, and if possible, include a photograph of the artifact. I prefer email inquiries over telephone calls. My email address is burba at thebakken.org ; to send me an email, replace "at" with an "@" symbol and remove any spaces. The Bakken does not provide monetary values for artifacts; if you are looking for such information, contact dealers of antique scientific and medical instruments. Here are two guides to information on dealers: http://www.surveyhistory.org/dealers.htm and http://www.americanartifacts.com/smma/index.htm |
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