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Vital Electricity

You're Dead to Me

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Is There a God in the Room?

Hawkesby is performing these things in the electro luminescence. And this is very early in the 1700s. He's sort of around in 1705 or 1706, I think. The key thing is that Gray in particular shows that the electricity doesn't just kind of stay on your glass globe. That the electricity can be conducted away and used elsewhere,. So you can have a piece of metal attached to the globe and that carries the electricity away. You can have a little boy suspended in the air with his feet touching the globe that's producing the electricity. They discover you can electrify water. It's not a really good idea at home.

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