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 545
ctricity equally well, isalways described in the shortest route possible ; but if theyconduct differently, this circuit is always formed throughthe best conductor, how great soever its length is, ratherthan through one which conducts not so well, though ofmuch less extent, in other words, he had… … I)!Franklin . CHAPTER XVI. The printers boy, who had landed hungry, footsoreand all but penniless at the Market Street wharf in Phila-delphia, after a hard journey by both sea and land fromBoston, was now, twenty-three years later, the chief citi-zen of the growing town. To no one did that…
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