Electrical safety posters of the 1920s and 30s and the Jewish doctor who pioneered the treatment of electrical accidents

These are electrical safety posters from the 1920s and 30s from various countries that I found in the online archives of a science museum in Vienna (deeply buried and complicated to track down, by the way – poor database design!) Originally they were in the Museum of Electropathology which existed from 1906 to 2002 and was founded by a Jewish doctor named Stefan Jellinek who was the first to specialize in the science and treatment of electric shocks to the human body due to accidents and lightning, and electrical safety in the home and workplace.

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In 1938, just two years after the museum gained its first permanent location, he was forced to flee to the UK due to persecution. He lived and worked there until his death in 1968 but visited Vienna in the post-war years to resume his involvement with the museum. In the 2000s the collections were absorbed by the Vienna Technology Museum.

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