A Wimshurst influence electrostatic generator, circa 1900.

12 inch twin discs, glass accumulators and glass support insulators.

Height: 46.5 cm.

Width: 49.5 cm.

Depth: 40 cm.

The Wimshurst influence machine is an electrostatic generator, a machine for generating high voltages developed between 1880 and 1883 by British inventor James Wimshurst (1832–1903).