The intellectual rise in electricity; a history (1895)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 397
nfernal toys, and heaven might serve him worse nexttime for tampering with the spirits of the air, which heshut up and tortured in his tubes and globes.2 But the Burgomaster knew his Magdeburgers and theyhim, and there was little danger that the fellow-officialswith whom he dined and smoked and… … OTTO VON GUERICKE. 389 of Brandenburg, and he had other titles bespeaking greatconsideration. But, at the present time, a couple of cen-turies later, the moths have eaten all these dignities andwe know Otto von Guericke best as one of the first andgreatest of the electrical discoverers. Now, we…
Electricity · Magnetism
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