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Identifier: magazineofamericv26stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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s, and chest with such force that he lost his breath for some moments,and pain in his right arm became so intense that he was seriously alarmed.It was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow, and hedeclared to his associates, I would not take a second shock for the king-dom of France. Professor Allamand was unwilling to pin his faith to the sensations ofothers as described by them, and hastened to take a shock of his own froma beer glass. He almost lost his breath for some minutes and experiencedsuch acute pain that he could scarcely bear it. Professor Winkler hearingof this, at once came from Leipsic to try it on himself. His shock was SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ELECTRICITY I87 so violent that he was thrown into convulsions ; there was a strange heav-iness in his head and he bled profusely from the nose. His wife, who wasa close student in this and other scientific directions, was with him, andundismayed she tried two shocks upon herself, which almost deprived her
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SEWING-MACHINE RUN BY ELECTRICITY. Whosoever had predicted in 1745 that electricity would in 1891 be used in the household to run sewing-machineswould have been esteemed a fit subject for incarceration as a dangerous lunatic.1 Page 188. 188 SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ELECTRICITY of the power to walk, and she remained in a limp and feeble condition fora week. Thus the wonderful Leyden jar was invented. No scientific discoveryever created such a tumult in the world. It was the most important singlecontribution to electrical science since the properties of amber were orig-inally discovered. Before the end of twelve months a great number ofpersons were traveling over the different countries of Europe, giving electricshocks for money. Thousands of people wanted to experience the novelsensation and were quite willing to pay for the privilege. Any one exam-ining the current literature of 1746 and 1747 will find ample proofs of theuniversal interest suddenly awakened in electricity. It was

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