Category:Electrometer-MHS 1094

**Electrometer-MHS 1094**
	pith-ball electrometer or electroscope, built by Saussure after a model invented by Cavallo
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Instance of	electroscope;
Made from material	glass; brass; pith;
Location	Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève, Villa Bartholoni, Petit-Saconnex, Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland
Creator	Horace Bénédict de Saussure;
Collection	Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève;
Inventory number	MHS 1094 (Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève);
Inception	c. 1785;
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	Q52775366;
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Alternative names	Horace B. de Saussure; Horace Benedict de Saussure; Sauss.; Horace-Benedict de Saussure
Description	-French physicist, meteorologist, botanist, mountaineer, university teacher and politician
Date of birth/death	17 February 1740	22 January 1799
Location of birth/death	Conches	Geneva
Authority file	: Q115525 VIAF: 36924377 ISNI: 0000000121280601 LCCN: n79134871 NLA: 35825373 Botanist: Sauss. Open Library: OL1155031A GND: 118804790 SELIBR: 358244 SUDOC: 027124010 BNF: 119237943 BIBSYS: 4073378 HDS: 015911 NKC: jx20070410004 BNE: XX1693399 CiNii: DA06704436 NLP: a0000002924257 J9U: 987007267649405171 Koninklijke: 072034734 WorldCat

Title

Electrometer-MHS 1094

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Date

circa 1785

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Collection

Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève

	Native name	Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève
	Parent institution	list of cultural properties in Geneva / Petit-Saconnex
	Location	Petit-Saconnex , Switzerland
	Coordinates	46° 13′ 14″ N, 6° 09′ 09″ E
	Established	1964
	Authority file	: Q19824862 VIAF: 131988207 ISNI: 0000000406130498 LCCN: no2011124326 WorldCat