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Description Drawing of the 'versorium', the first electrical measuring instrument, a crude electroscope invented in 1600 by British scientist William Gilbert. It was a simple pivoted metal needle, like a compass but unmagnetized. The needle would be attracted to charged bodies.
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Source Downloaded from Sylvanus Phillips Thompson (1902) Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism, MacMillan & Co., London, p.16, fig.11 on Google Books
Author Sylvanus Phillips Thompson
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