Improved Apparatus for Electrical Experiments - 1767

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Read before the Royal Society on  March 12, 1767 was a
Description of an improved Apparatus for performing Electrical Experiments, in which the Electrical Power is increased, the Operator intirely secured from receiving any accidental Shocks, and the whole rendered more convenient for Experiments than heretofore: By C. Epinasse, F.R.S.
. In the Eighteenth century, experimenters dealing with electricity were prone to receiving painful, and perhaps fatal, shocks from their experimental devices. This paper dealt with a proposed solution to the electrical shock problem and describes the improved apparatus and how it should be used.
The item is a First Edition, extracted and disbound from The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 57, Part I For the Year 1767, pages 186-191, with one large extended plate. This volume of the transactions was published in London in 1768. The first illustration above is the first page of the document, with the extended plate showing the newly invented apparatus in the second illustration.
Charles L'Epinasse
was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767.