A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences : comprehending all the branches of useful knowledge, with accurate descriptions as well of the various machines, instruments, tools, figures, and schemes necessary for illustrating them, as of the classes, kinds, preparations, and uses of natural productions, whether animals, vegetables, minerals, fossils, or fluids : together with the kingdoms, provinces, cities, towns, and other remarkable places throughout the world : illustrated with above three hundred copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Jefferys, geographer to His Majesty : the whole extracted from the best authors in all languages (1763)
Society of Arts (Great Britain). Society of Gentlemen, Jefferys, Thomas, -1771, Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, Wale, Samuel, d. 1786, Owen, W. (William), d. 1793 · London : Printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, in Fleet-Street · leaf 254
rdirg on rofin, holdirgthe chain of the conductor, points hts fin-ger to the warm fpiriis of wine ; and bycommunicating the electric fire thereto,kindles the rifing vapour, ami fo fets thewhole on fire. In this manner any foitof matter, which, when warmed, willfend forth an inflammable vapour, will… … , / /i/Kn/j.ut//^ E L E [ 1053 ] ELE <§ry ferrfiMe quite crofs the river Thame?,by the communication of no other me-dium than the water of that river, andfpirit of wine fired a: that diftance.J3y comparing the refpective velocities ofeletricity and found, t!i3t of electricity,in any diftance yet…
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