The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Band 5Hillard, Gray, 1840 |
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... draw a spark , to produce the same effect . To prove that the electrical fire is drawn off by the point , if you take the blade of the bodkin out of the wooden handle , and fix it in a stick of sealing - wax , and then present it at the ...
... draw a spark , to produce the same effect . To prove that the electrical fire is drawn off by the point , if you take the blade of the bodkin out of the wooden handle , and fix it in a stick of sealing - wax , and then present it at the ...
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... draw off its atmosphere at a foot distance where , if the head were presented instead of the point , no such effect would follow . To understand this , we may consider , that , if a person standing on the floor would draw off the elec ...
... draw off its atmosphere at a foot distance where , if the head were presented instead of the point , no such effect would follow . To understand this , we may consider , that , if a person standing on the floor would draw off the elec ...
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... draw nigher to the floor , and dip more when it comes over the punch ; and , if that be placed at a proper distance , the scale will snap and discharge its fire into it . But , if a needle be stuck on the end of the punch , its point ...
... draw nigher to the floor , and dip more when it comes over the punch ; and , if that be placed at a proper distance , the scale will snap and discharge its fire into it . But , if a needle be stuck on the end of the punch , its point ...
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An Account of Negotiations in London for effecting | 1 |
Vindication and Offer from Congress to Parliament | 83 |
Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union proposed | 91 |
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