Andrew Crosse, The Electrician
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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4.2 • 24.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In the early 1800s, Andrew Crosse observed a strange thing happening on an electrified rock in his lab, and he was catapulted into the public spotlight. But before that and after, his life and home at Fyne Court were filled with eccentric delights.
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| 0:30.7 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, |
| 0:34.5 | a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:36.5 | [♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:42.7 | Hello and welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:44.8 | I'm Tracy V. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry. |
| 0:47.8 | After we did our episode on John Cleve Sims, |
| 0:51.1 | and his ideas of the Earth being hollow, |
| 0:54.0 | somebody suggested that we do an episode on Andru Cross. |
| 0:57.6 | And I wrote all this down, including the fact that he thought he invented life from crystals. |
| 1:04.4 | And now I'm going to totally depart from the document that I gave Holly |
| 1:08.6 | for our outline to come in here, because I just figured out who suggested this. |
| 1:14.9 | What was originally written in this outline was that I had gone looking in our email, |
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