Oct 18, 2018 - Sale 2489

Sale 2489 - Lot 324

Price Realized: $ 520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
JOHN KUEHNE (1872-1960)
Group of 4 prints depicting the negative charge of electrity discharged from a Leyden jar.
Ferrotyped silver prints, the images measuring 6x4 3/4 to 8 1/4x7 3/4 inches (15.2x12.1 to 22.2x19.7 cm.), each with notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. Circa 1930

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Kuehne was a Professor of Physics at the Unversity of Texas, Austin, from 1909-1951. A pioneer, he researched the relationship between magnetism and electricity, and helped found the McDonald Observatory.