Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

An Unrestrained Demon

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  • Note: Cover. Anti-electricity cartoon. Electricity is portrayed as a spider with a cobweb of electrical wires for trapping its human victims.
  • On October 11, 1889 John Feeks, a Western Union lineman, was high up in the tangle of overhead electrical wires working on what were supposed to be low-voltage telegraph lines in a busy Manhattan district. As the lunchtime crowd below looked on he grabbed a nearby line that, unknown to him, had been shorted many blocks away with a high-voltage AC line. The jolt entered through his bare right hand and exited his left steel studded climbing boot. Feeks was killed almost instantly, his body falling into the tangle of wire, sparking, burning, and smoldering for the better part of an hour while a horrified crowd of thousands gathered below.
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Date created
  • October 26, 1889
Identifier
  • Digital ID: d_6669
Published in
  • Judge, vol.17, no.419
Repository
  • Ohio State University. Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
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  • E151 .J83
Date copyrighted
  • 1889
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  • This item, made available for research and educational purposes, may be protected by copyright; the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status.
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  • mechanical reproduction
Medium
  • chromolithograph
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  • 34 x 26 cm
Credit line: The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

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