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Faraday's apparatus for the electrolysis of water, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.024

Scope and Contents

Royal Institution, London, England. Apparatus used by Michael Faraday for the electrolysis of water. Each of the product gases--hydrogen and oxygen--collect in one of the slightly slanted cylinders, enabling one to measure the amount of each gas evolved.

Dates

  • Creation: 2000

Repository Details

Part of the Science History Institute Archives Repository

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