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 by Jared Sparks, Band 5Childs & Peterson, 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 no fire from the floor through the ma- → chine , the communication that way being cut off by the thick glass plate under the cushion ; it must then draw it through the chains , whose ends were dipped in the oil of turpentine . And ...
... draw no fire from the floor through the ma- → chine , the communication that way being cut off by the thick glass plate under the cushion ; it must then draw it through the chains , whose ends were dipped in the oil of turpentine . And ...
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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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Abbé Abbé Nollet America appear attracted BENJAMIN FRANKLIN body bottle Britain charged clouds coating Collinson colonies common matter conduct Congress contained cork ball cushion discharged draw earth effect elec electric fluid electric matter electrical atmosphere electrical experiments electrical fire electrified equal fait finger floor force Franklin give glass globe greater hand heat honor hook igne ignis iron j'ai JAMES BOWDOIN jars Kinnersley letter Leyden lightning Lord Lord Chatham Lord Hyde Lordship magnetic melted ment metal motion natural quantity needle negative non-electric observed opinion paper Parliament passing person PETER COLLINSON Philadelphia piece plate pointed rod positively power of points present prime conductor quantity of electricity received repelled repulsion round Royal Society rubbed shock side silk spark standing on wax stroke sulphur suppose surface suspended thread tion touch the wire tricity tube vapors whole wire