Silver wire explosion pattern Richard Carlile Church of St Giles in

Church of St Giles in the Fields

on the London and Brighton Railway

View with two figures walking past

Plate 94 from British mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain

Silver wire explosion pattern Richard Carlile Church of St Giles inThree figures of effects produced by the explosion of silver wire positioned over a sheet of paper or glass when subjected to a high voltage electrical current. This was provided by the electrostatic generator and associated machinery designed by John Cuthbertson (bap. 1743 d. 1821) for Martin van Marum and installed at Teyler's Museum at Haarlem in the Netherlands. The results of these experiments are considered to be an early milestone in high