Genre:

Miscellaneous, Serial

Subjects:

Electricity

    Reports: 'A Mr. Beyer, to whom France owes the construction of the principal conductors (Para-ton-nerres) in that empire, possesses one of the completest collections of electrical machines in Paris, in la Rue de Clichy, No. 33. His magnificent battery, of sixty feet in circumference, kills an ox in a second of time. It is powerful enough to kill an elephant. An infinitely lesser shock kills the largest species of game, such as deer or hares; and a still slighter, all sorts of volatiles, as turkies [sic], geese, &c. As soon as the animal is put to death by these means, the flesh acquires a degree of tenderness which is really wonderful. There is no time to be lost in passing it from the electrical machine to the spit' (432).