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A traveling lecturer pumps the air from a glass bowl while a family watches the bird inside it fail, and Wright lights the whole scene from one hidden source on the table, so that every face becomes a different answer to the same question.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranklin stands where the lecturer stood, drawing a thin blue spark from the cap of a Leyden jar with a brass rod. At the left a young man cranks the glass globe, and an older man in black watches from the corner. At the right a boy reaches for the jar, a girl hides her face, a woman keeps a hand on each child, and a gentleman in blue rests his chin on his fist. One candle lights the table, a key lies on the cloth, and lightning splits the window.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWright painted the moment a room understood that the natural world could be questioned and would answer. 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