The Leyden jar experiment: the Dutch physicist Pieter van Musschenbroek tests the conductivity of electricity and is electrocuted. 20th April 1746. Illustration from "Les Merveilles de la science ou description populaire des inventions modernes" written by Louis Figuier and published in 1867 by Furne, Jouvet et Cie.

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