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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 570

An illustration from A history of electricity : the intellectual rise in electricity from antiquity to the days of Benjamin Franklin, 1898, leaf 570 — d anddriven nothing. The summer of 1749 was now at hand, and the Philadel-phia experimenters determined to suspend work until afterthe hot weather. Franklin, who does not conceal his re-gret that we have been hitherto able to produce nothingin this way of use to mankind, ends his letter to Collin-… … ^ franki^ins ii,i.ustrations of his experiments. ^ Reproduced in reduced fac simile from the folding plate in FranklinsNew Experiments and Observations on Electricity made at Philadelphia 36 563 THE INTELLECTUAL RISE IN ELECTRICITY. fire kindled by the electrical bottle; when the healths of allthe…

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