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en
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Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Taavi Kalju, and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Europe at http://dp.rastko.net. (This file was made using scans of public domain works from the University of Michigan Digital Libraries.)
Release date
2006-03-12
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

An early British experimenter in electricity, he became famous—and controversial—after reports that tiny insects appeared during one of his electrocrystallization experiments. His mix of country-house science, big electrical apparatus, and Victorian curiosity still feels striking today.
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