Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… The audience was widened to include women and even children, who attended public lectures and viewed experiments conducted in the home. Scientific instruments became conversation pieces , foci for polite discourse in public and … or ‘fire’—was generated by a machine in which a glass plate or globe was rubbed against wire brushes. It could then be conducted through metals or the human body. As the charge passed from body to body, participants experienced peculiar …
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