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June 5, 2012 04:58 pm PDT
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How early electric experiments destroyed the University of Missouri's main academic hall
I'm completely fascinated by stories from the early days of electricity ... specifically, stories of experiments that went horribly (and sometimes, comically) wrong. For me, it's a great reminder that, no matter how much of a sure-thing a technology like electricity seems in retrospect, there was always a point in history where the future was [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/yfux0OjABTk/how-early-electric-experiments.html
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