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Lost in Space

FIGURE 6.2 'Electrification' as an 18th century party trick. The friction machine transfers electric charge to the suspended boy, who transfers it to the girl on the insulating platform, whose outstretched hand attracts fragments of paper from the little table. (Drawn from a photograph - reproduced in an article by Mary Brazier - of an illustration in F. H. Winckler's Essai sur la Nature. Les effets et les causes avec descrip- tion de deux nouvelles machines a Electricite, lorry, Paris, 1748.)