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An electrical experiment from Sir William Watson, Recueil de traités sur l'electricité, traduits de l'Allemand & de l'Anglois

In a popular eighteenth-century electrical experiment, a boy, suspended
by silk cords, draws a charge from a generator, transmitting it to a girl
standing on dried pitch, allowing her to attract and repel chaff.
From: Sir William Watson, Recueil de traités sur l'electricité, traduits
de l'Allemand & de l'Anglois (Paris, 1748) – Science, Industry
and Business Library, NYPL
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