The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary, with His LifeS. Andrus and Son, 1847 - 304 Seiten |
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... experiments , while the idea I have conceived has been fresh and strongly impressed on my imagination . My father at length decided that I should be a cutler , and I was placed for some days upon trial with my cousin Samuel , son of my ...
... experiments , while the idea I have conceived has been fresh and strongly impressed on my imagination . My father at length decided that I should be a cutler , and I was placed for some days upon trial with my cousin Samuel , son of my ...
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... experiments , with all the ardor and thirst for discovery which characterised the philosophers of that day . Cr all the branches of experimental philosophy electricity had been least explored . The attrac tive power of amber is ...
... experiments , with all the ardor and thirst for discovery which characterised the philosophers of that day . Cr all the branches of experimental philosophy electricity had been least explored . The attrac tive power of amber is ...
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... experiments ; in which they demonstra- ted , that electricity may be communicated from one body to another , even without being in con- tact , and in this way may be conducted to a great distance . Mr. Grey afterwards found , that by ...
... experiments ; in which they demonstra- ted , that electricity may be communicated from one body to another , even without being in con- tact , and in this way may be conducted to a great distance . Mr. Grey afterwards found , that by ...
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... experiments excited the curiosity of other philosophers . Collinson , about the year 1745 , sent to the Library Company of Philadel- phia an account of these experiments , together with a tube , and directions how to use it . Frank- lin ...
... experiments excited the curiosity of other philosophers . Collinson , about the year 1745 , sent to the Library Company of Philadel- phia an account of these experiments , together with a tube , and directions how to use it . Frank- lin ...
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... experiments , that the electricity did not reside in the coating , as had been supposed , but in the pores of the glass itself . After a phial was charged , he removed the coating , and found that upon applying a new coating the shock ...
... experiments , that the electricity did not reside in the coating , as had been supposed , but in the pores of the glass itself . After a phial was charged , he removed the coating , and found that upon applying a new coating the shock ...
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