Scientific Researches! New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! [sic] or an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air, May 23, 1802

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Gillray's humor could be quite bawdy, but this image may record an actual event at the recently founded Royal Institution. Professor Thomas Young reportedly conducted such an experiment on a fellow member of the society, Sir John Coxe Hippsley, who was said to have inhaled a gas as Young held his nose to explosive ends.

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Title
Scientific Researches! New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! [sic] or an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air
Artist Life
1756 - 1815
Role
Artist
Accession Number
P.17,347
Catalogue Raisonne
See: Wright & Evans, 468
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