#static electricity

Stories tagged “static electricity” in the Weird Science History archive — 3 stories connected by this topic.

• The Dust-Stopper Cork That Revealed Electricity Could Travel — and the Boy Hung From a Ceiling to Prove It
• The Man Who Strung Eight Miles of Telegraph Wire Around His Garden — and Was Told It Was 'Wholly Unnecessary'
• The Preacher Who Ran Free Electric-Shock Clinics in Four Corners of London

Related topics: #18th century #Leyden jar