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Nobili's box thermopile
    • Setting:
      Room XVI
    • Inventor:
      Leopoldo Nobili
    • Maker:
      Tecnomasio Italiano firm [attr.]
    • Place:
      Milan
    • Date:
      ca. 1870
    • Materials:
      boxwood, bismuth, antimony, brass
    • Dimensions:
      height 48 mm, diameter 58 mm
    • Inventory:
      1230
    • Nobili's box thermopile (Inv. 1230)

Thermopile in a boxwood box, perhaps made by Tecnomasio Italiano in Milan on the pattern invented by Leopoldo Nobili. There are 25 antimony and bismuth elements. Provenance: Lorraine collections.