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Electricity - Experiments

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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 (?).
  • 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].
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Catalogue

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    Animal electricity produced without any intermediate body.

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    Galvanism experiments.

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    [Galvanism experiments]. Plate 6.

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    Observations on a series of electrical experiments / By Dr Hoadly, and Mr Wilson.

    Hoadly, Dr. (Benjamin), 1706-1757. | Date: 1756
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    [Galvanism experiments]. Plate 2.

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