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William Nicholson Jennings

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Contains biographical information about Jennings, information about his work in the science of lightning and images of Jennings' original photographs
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In 1890 together with Arthur W. Goodspeed he was photographing electric sparks and brush discharges at the
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William N. Jennings, First Photograph of Lightning, taken September 2, 1882, Philadelphia
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by Roentgen Goodspeed and Jennings realized that this was an accidental X-ray photo.
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William Jennings in The Franklin Institute's Case Files online exhibit
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active in Philadelphia from the 1890s. He conducted experiments with
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https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiology.181.3.1947073
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and artificial lightning, helping in the development of
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William Jennings in The Franklin Institute's Case Files online exhibit
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