{"id":3060,"date":"2023-04-01T21:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T21:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/?p=3060"},"modified":"2024-03-30T09:39:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T09:39:53","slug":"stefan-jellinek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/stefan-jellinek\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrical safety posters of the 1920s and 30s and the Jewish doctor who pioneered the treatment of electrical accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Click to enlarge and use arrow keys to go to the next<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3060 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-37.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"107\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-37-107x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-37-107x150.jpg 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src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-47-106x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-47-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-47-500x710.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-47.jpg 563w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-11.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"108\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-11-108x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-11-108x150.jpg 108w, 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portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-58.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"105\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-58-105x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-58-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-58-500x713.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-58.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"109\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-2-109x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-2-109x150.jpg 109w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-2-500x688.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-2.jpg 581w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-3060 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-9.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"115\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-9-115x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-9-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-9-500x650.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-9.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  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Originally they were in the Museum of Electropathology which existed from 1906 to 2002 and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/stefan-jellinek\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Electrical safety posters of the 1920s and 30s and the Jewish doctor who pioneered the treatment of electrical accidents&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[103,44],"class_list":["post-3060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-history","tag-graphic-design-printing-and-illustration","tag-posters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3060"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions\/3098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}