Post by sherlew99 on Apr 13, 2016 13:13:12 GMT -6
Atlas Obscura
Inside the Spark-Filled Home of a Vintage Electric Machine Collector
You get the lights, I'll flip the switch for the Victorian teleport.
by Ella Morton April 13, 2016
In his one-bedroom apartment four floors above a Manhattan Chipotle, Tim Mullen is trying to get his television to work. It takes a while, but the TV’s pretty old—almost 70 years old, in fact. It stands in a corner, all 295 pounds of it, beside a brain in a bell jar, a wart-zapping X-ray wand, and an electrostatic generator that, if you were to put your finger in the path of its spark, could easily kill you.
Inside the Spark-Filled Home of a Vintage Electric Machine Collector
You get the lights, I'll flip the switch for the Victorian teleport.
by Ella Morton April 13, 2016
In his one-bedroom apartment four floors above a Manhattan Chipotle, Tim Mullen is trying to get his television to work. It takes a while, but the TV’s pretty old—almost 70 years old, in fact. It stands in a corner, all 295 pounds of it, beside a brain in a bell jar, a wart-zapping X-ray wand, and an electrostatic generator that, if you were to put your finger in the path of its spark, could easily kill you.
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