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Unpublished paper, 'Nuove idee sull'elettricita applicare all'invenzione d'un paratremuoto' [New ideas on electricty, applied to the invention of a 'paratremuoto'] by Pasquale Stanislao Mancini

Reference number: AP/22/13

Date: March 1837

Description

Mancini describes an invention he calls the 'paratremuoto', which is designed to protect buildings from tremors and earthquakes. The paper is split into chapters on the importance of the subject, new ideas about the nature of electricity, remarks on the theory of tremors, and the description of the paratremuoto. He explains that the paratremuoto would protect a building from tremors as a lightning rod protects the building from lighting ('[il paratremuoto] preservasse un edifizio isolato dai tremuoti, come il parafulmine lo preserva dai fulmini').

Subject: Electromagnetism / Seismology

Written by Mancini in Napoli.

Reference number
AP/22/13
Earliest possible date
March 1837
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
44 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Unpublished paper, 'Nuove idee sull'elettricita applicare all'invenzione d'un paratremuoto' [New ideas on electricty, applied to the invention of a 'paratremuoto'] by Pasquale Stanislao Mancini, March 1837, AP/22/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_22_13/unpublished-paper-nuove-idee-sullelettricita-applicare-allinvenzione-dun-paratremuoto-new-ideas-on-electricty-applied-to-the-invention-of-a-paratremuoto-by-pasquale-stanislao-mancini, accessed on 17 March 2026

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