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The electric boy   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Jean-Antoine Nollet (19 November 1700 – 25 April 1770)
Title
The electric boy
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English: 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.
Date 1746
date QS:P571,+1746-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q5090408
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The author died in 1770, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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