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Madame du Barry (?) and two servants demonstrate an experiment on electricity to a lady seated in a chair attended by two men. Engraving by J,F. Beauvarlet after C.A. Vanloo, ca. 1770 (?).
Vanloo, Charles Amédée Philippe, 1719-1795.Date: 1770-1779Reference: 575778i
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Mémoire sur les différentes manières d'administrer l'électricité, et observations sur les effets qu'elles ont produits / par M. Mauduyt. Extrait des Mémoires de la Société Royale de Médicine. Imprimé par ordre du Roi.
Pierre Jean Claude Mauduyt de La VarenneDate: [1784]
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Observations on a series of electrical experiments / By Dr. Hoadly, and Mr. Wilson.
Benjamin HoadlyDate: 1759
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An account of the galvanic experiments performed by John Aldini on the body of a malefactor executed at Newgate Jan. 17, 1803. With a short view of some experiments which will be described in the author's new work now in press / [Giovanni Aldini].
Giovanni AldiniDate: 1803- Books
Bolt of fate : Benjamin Franklin and his electric kite hoax / Tom Tucker.
Tucker, Tom, 1944-Date: [2004]

![An account of the galvanic experiments performed by John Aldini on the body of a malefactor executed at Newgate Jan. 17, 1803. With a short view of some experiments which will be described in the author's new work now in press / [Giovanni Aldini].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0001964/full/420%2C/0/default.jpg)