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 535
eessays to test by direct experiment. He plants mustardseeds in two receptacles, and maintains one in an electri-fied state for eight days. The electrified seeds, he says,had all sprouted at the end of that time, and had stalks ^ Deir elettricismo ossia delle forze elletriche. Venice, 1746. 528 THE… … abbe: NOLI^ETS experiments on EI.ECTRIC UGHT IN VACUUM FLASKS.^ ^ Reproduced in reduced fac simile from Nollets Recherches sur lesCauses Particulieres des Phenomenes Blectriques. Paris, 1749. Theglass globe being set in rapid rotation is electrically excited by the pres-sure of the hands against…
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