Image: RGNb10360943.01 Nollet The Electric Boy
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Description: Frontispiece illustration from Essai sur l'electricité des corps by M. l'abbé Nollet. Paris : Chez les freres Guerin, 1746. The image depicts Nollet’s “electric boy” experiment, in which a boy hanging from insulating silk ropes is given an electric charge. A group are gathered around. A woman is encouraged to bend forward and poke the boy's nose, to get an electric shock.
Title: The electric boy
Credit: Science History Institute
Author: Jean-Antoine Nollet (19 November 1700 – 25 April 1770)
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