The spiral conductor of Charles Grafton Page: Reconstructing experience with the body, more options, and ambiguity

Following discoveries of self-induction made by Faraday (1834) and Henry (1832/1835), Harvard medical student Charles Grafton Page took bodily shocks in 1836 from his homemade spiralled conductor while interrupting its battery connection. Unlike his famous predecessors, Page inserted connectors int...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cavicchi, Elizabeth
Other Authors: Edgerton Center (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Format: Book chapter
Published: National Museums Scotland 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/152176