Unpublished paper, 'Nuove idee sull'elettricita applicare all'invenzione d'un paratremuoto' [New ideas on electricty, applied to the invention of a 'paratremuoto'] by Pasquale Stanislao Mancini Mancini describes an invention he calls the 'paratremuoto', which is designed to protect buildings from tremors and earthquakes. The paper is split into chapters on the importance of the subject, new ideas about the nature of electricity, remarks on the theory of tremors, and the description of the paratremuoto. He explains that the paratremuoto would protect a building from tremors as a lightning rod protects the building from lighting ('[il paratremuoto] preservasse un edifizio isolato dai tremuoti, come il parafulmine lo preserva dai fulmini'). Subject: Electromagnetism / Seismology Written by Mancini in Napoli. March 1837