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How William N. Jennings captured the first photograph of lightning in 1882

Aug 07, 2025
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By William Nicholson Jennings - Igoe, Laura Turner. “Capturing ‘Jove’s Autograph’: Late Nineteenth-Century Lightning Photography and Electrical Agency.”, Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 2 no. 1 (Summer, 2016). PDF https://doi.org/10.24926/24716839.1535, Public Domain, Link

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