George Wilhelm Richmann (1711-1753) professor of Natural History at St Petersburg,Russia. Already interested in the electrical nature of thunderstorms,he repeated Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment and was killed by ball-lightning on 6 August 1753. The first person to be killed while conducting an electrical experiment. Engraving from Les Merveilles de la Science by Louis Figuier (Paris c1870) | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / UIG / Universal History Archive |
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