Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

An Unrestrained Demon

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  • Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, The Ohio State University

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Title
  • An Unrestrained Demon
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  • mechanical reproduction
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Date Created
  • October 26, 1889
Date Copyrighted
  • 1889
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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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  • Judge, vol.17, no.419

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  • E151 .J83
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  • Digital ID: d_6669

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  • 34 x 26 cm
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  • chromolithograph
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