An opened electric plug, an electric flex with exposed wires, and a newspaper article about death caused by a wrongly wired plug. Colour lithograph after Robin Day.

  • Day, Robin, 1915-2010.
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An opened electric plug, an electric flex with exposed wires, and a newspaper article about death caused by a wrongly wired plug. Colour lithograph after Robin Day. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The plug is three-pinned with round pins

Bears device: triangle with cogwheels

Publication/Creation

London (Terminal House, 52 Grosvenor Gardens, London S.W.1.) : Published by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents ([Place of manufacture not identified] : Loxley Bros. Ltd.)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 76 x 50 cm

Lettering

Let the electrician do it. Electrocution "wrongly wired plug caused death" ; Robin Day Bears number: IND/0/5

Reference

Wellcome Collection 32585i

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