Boing Boing

Boing Boing

Share this post

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

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

Aug 07, 2025
∙ Paid
4

Share this post

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

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

A Philadelphia photographer made history by cap…

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to Boing Boing to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in
© 2025 Happy Mutants LLC
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture

Share