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A history of electricity : the intellectual rise in electricity from antiquity to the days of Benjamin Franklin (1898)

Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York : J. Wiley & Sons · leaf 471

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r. Hauksbee, however, bending over his globe, isuttering new, and even more fervid expressions of amaze-ment and admiration. His lights are becoming fantastic,branching here and there, dashing against the crystalwalls, while his notions are being turned so completelyaround, that he is beginning to… … HAUKSBEES EI.ECTRIC Gl,OW.^ light produced proceeds from some quality in the glass(upon such as friction or motion given it), and not fromthe mercury, upon any other account than only as does aproper body, which by beating or rubbing on the glass,produces the light. Observe how easy it is after the…

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