Antique electric tablecloth

A bit of the unusual, over at the 24 Hour Museum:

London’s Science Museum has a similar tablecloth in its collection, on display in the Domestic Appliances Gallery until 1990 but now in storage. They date their tablecloth, made by Henry Cooper of Bakewell, around 1902 to 1905.

The museum's file notes state that it was an "unusual novelty item" that would have been "lethal if liquid were spilt on it".

Probably not, given that it seems to have been used with low voltage DC, but one still might have had a nice light show.

Posted by David on January 27, 2004 7:59 PM