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userbinator on Nov 9, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mark Twain playing with electricity in Nikola Tesl...

That was amusing, but is there a primary source[1] for that? I think it'd be far more interesting to read an account of it in 19th century English.

[1] Electrical pun not intended.

OnlineGladiator on Nov 9, 2019 [–]

I originally read it in a biography I read many years ago. I assume that biography was well cited and that a primary source exists, but I do not know where it is (I have spent literally zero seconds searching though).

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