Capturing “Jove’s Autograph”: Late Nineteenth-Century Lightning Photography and Electrical Agency
On September 5, 1885, Scientific American published a photograph depicting a “streak of real ‘Jersey lightning,’” taken by William Nicholson Jennings (1860-1946) at 10:30 p.m. on the first of August that same year.
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University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
2016-06-01
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https://journalpanorama.org/article/art-and-invention-in-the-united-states/capturing-joves-autograph-late-nineteenth-century-lightning-photography-and-electrical-agency/
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