SYMHC Classics: Andrew Crosse
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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4.2 • 23.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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This 2021 episode covers Andrew Crosse, who observed a strange thing happening on an electrified rock in his lab in the early 1800s, and was catapulted into the public spotlight.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.9 | Happy Saturday. Our classic today has connections to two things that we mentioned on the show this week, |
| 0:13.6 | Richard Owen and the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace. It's Andrew Cross, who did some |
| 0:18.9 | goofy stuff with electricity and crystals in the 19th century. |
| 0:23.0 | We have a couple little updates not directly related to Andrew Cross. |
| 0:27.8 | In this episode, we have a whole conversation about comments on our website at mistinhistory.com. |
| 0:34.6 | The website no longer has comments on it. |
| 0:37.3 | If you go running to there to leave us a comment, |
| 0:39.3 | there will not be an option to do that. |
| 0:42.3 | We also talk about Cross's home of Fine Court, |
| 0:45.3 | which is a National Trust property today. |
| 0:48.3 | We say in the episode that the cafe is takeout only |
| 0:51.3 | due to COVID precautions. |
| 0:53.3 | That is of course not the case. |
| 0:55.2 | And it's also now home to a used bookstore that I don't recall being mentioned when I first |
| 1:01.6 | researched this episode. |
| 1:03.6 | This originally came out on January 27, 2021. |
| 1:07.6 | Enjoy. |
| 1:15.7 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 1:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry. After we did our episode on John Cleve Sims and his ideas of the earth being hollow, somebody suggested that we do an episode on |
| 1:35.4 | Andrew Cross. And I wrote all this down, including the fact that he thought he invented life |
| 1:41.7 | from crystals. And now I'm going to totally depart from the document that I gave Holly for our outline to come in here |
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