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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

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vations ina little book called De Mag-nete, in the year a. d. 1600, and thus became the first author of a workupon electricity. In this unique and initial work upon simple electrical ef-fects, the author added greatly to the number of substances that could beelectrified by friction, and succeeded… … OLD FRANKLIN ELECTRICAL MACHINE.(By permission of Franklin Institute.) WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY 21 this time the influence of Lord Bacons Inductive Philosophy began to be feltby investigators and scientific men. Before that, the causes of naturalphenomena had not been backed up by repeated…

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