Excerpt from Joseph Henry's Record of Experiments (July 15, 1841)
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Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintRecord of experiments of Joseph Henry, then a professor at Princeton University and later first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, July 15, 1841. In the record, Henry describes and analyzes a lightning strike on a house near Princeton.
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Reingold, Nathan, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 5, The Princeton Years: January 1841-December 1843 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1985), 66-72
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
July 15, 1841
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