This image may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by the Science History Institute of any product, service or activity, or to concur with a
This image may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by the Science History Institute of any product, service or activity, or to concur with an opinion or confirm the accuracy of any text appearing alongside or in logical association with the image. Static electricity experiment. 18th-century artwork of the 'electric boy' experiment carried out at lectures by French clergyman and physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet (left, 1700-1770). The boy, hanging from insulating silk threads, is given an electric charge using an electrical machine. The static electricity generated causes items (lower centre) to be attracted to him. At right, a young woman is reaching out to touch the boy, which is causing sparks to pass between them. This artwork is a frontispiece illustration to Nollet's 'Essai sur l'electricite des corps' (Essay on the Electricity of Bodies, Paris, 1746).
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