Wednesday, 29 April 2020

Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre. Boulevard du Temple, Paris, c. 1838. Daguerreotype. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich.

Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre. Boulevard du Temple, Paris, c. 1838. Daguerreotype. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich.
Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre. Boulevard du Temple, Paris, c. 1838. Daguerreotype. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich.

Saturday, 4 April 2020

Augustus Waller was demonstrating his capillary electrometer to the Royal Society in London in 1887.

Augustus Waller was demonstrating his capillary electrometer to the Royal Society in London in 1887. To the enormous relief of the assembled luminaries, his dog Jimmy, who had one front and one back paw immersed in a saline solution containing the electrodes, was not electrocuted.