Davis - Patent Magneto - Electric Machine for Nervous Diseases, after 1854

Containers:
Artifact-box 148, Item hwilba0082
Scope and content:

New York: W.H. Burnap. Wooden box with magnet and coils, with directions inside lid. Box is damaged and there is no key.

When handle is turned, it generates current through wires to hand-held cylinders.

Acquisition information:
Received from: George D. Wilbanks, MD and Evelyn R. Wilbanks, PhD

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