| Description | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and Étienne Léopold Trouvelot worked on the same subject and published scientific papers on it, but lived a century apart and never met. What they both worked on are called to this day Lichtenberg figures, the strange, beautiful, almost organic shapes formed when a pulse of high-voltage electricity passes over the surface of an insulator. Lichtenberg was the first to describe these figures, and Trouvelot one of the first to record them photographically. I have researched the history of two men who were interested in both science and art, and have also created Lichtenberg figures myself. |
| Topics | Science
Talks
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| Type | U3A-led research (not an SLP) |
| U3A | Heritage Coast Lyme Regis U3A
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| Year started | 2016 |
| Source of reference | | Talk given at the U3A Science Seminar, Harper Adams, 2016 | |
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| Notes | Willing to give this talk to other U3As and available on Zoom |