About 150 years later, Benjamin Franklin reportedly used a kite to experiment with one of the earliest-known electrical capacitors.

大约又过了150年，本杰明·富兰克林利用风筝‘偷电’，这是已知最早的有关电容器的实验。

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Participants were told they were involved in a learning experiment, that they were to administer electrical shocks and that they should continue to the end of the experiment.

被试被告知他们参与了一个学习实验，他们执行电击，并且需要持续到实验的最后。

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During the course of the experiment, each time the 'learner' made a mistake the participant was ordered to administer ever-increasing electrical shocks.

在实验过程中，每当“学习者”犯下一个错误的时候，被试就被命令执行不断增强的电击。

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But Mr Broadbent pulls together some striking evidence in support, including this wild and wacky chart (below) which looks like an electrical experiment gone wrong, but actually shows the movement of output across 81 sectors of the economy since the late 1990s.

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In January 1803 the anatomist and electrical showman Giovanni Aldini shocked London with a ghoulish experiment.

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Milgram expected 30% of those subjects to deliver what they thought was a fatal electrical charge to an unseen but loudly screaming subject in response to orders from the authority overseeing the experiment. 65% of those subjects actually delivered the fatal electrical shock.

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