Experiment With Static Electricity #1
by Universal History Archive/uig
Title
Experiment With Static Electricity #1
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Universal History Archive/uig
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Photograph - Photograph
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Experiment with static electricity by Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700-1770) French physicist and cleric. A gun barrel is suspended over the globe of an electrostatic machine, a chain hanging from it touching the globe. The man standing on a block of rosin and holding a chain attached to the barrel will feel nothing but a second person, left, can draw sparks off him. Engraving from The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences edited by TH Croker, Thomas Williams and Samuel Clark. (London, 1764).
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August 1st, 2016
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