Podcast: Making Science with Tom Whipple
Episode: Are friars electric?
Pub date: 2025-07-01

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In 1746, Antoine Nolie conducted an experiment with 200 monks to determine the speed of an electric current - by making the monks stand in a circle holding brass poles and connecting them to a large battery. What could possibly go wrong? And what would this experiment reveal about the way electrons flow?

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