The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary, with His LifeN. Hickman, 1835 - 304 Seiten |
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... experiments , which added not a little to the science . He made the discovery of two kinds of electricity , which he called vitreous and resinous ; the former produced by rubbing glass , the latter from excited sul- phur , sealing wax ...
... experiments , which added not a little to the science . He made the discovery of two kinds of electricity , which he called vitreous and resinous ; the former produced by rubbing glass , the latter from excited sul- phur , sealing wax ...
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... experiments made which are usually performed with electricity . About a month before this period , some ingenious Frenchman had completed the discovery in the man- ner originally proposed by Dr. Franklin . The letters which he sent to ...
... experiments made which are usually performed with electricity . About a month before this period , some ingenious Frenchman had completed the discovery in the man- ner originally proposed by Dr. Franklin . The letters which he sent to ...
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... experiments , and of putting these experiments in practice , and thus estab- lishing the theory upon a firm and solid basis , is in- contestibly due to Franklin . - D'Alibard , who made the first experiments in France , says , that he ...
... experiments , and of putting these experiments in practice , and thus estab- lishing the theory upon a firm and solid basis , is in- contestibly due to Franklin . - D'Alibard , who made the first experiments in France , says , that he ...
Inhalt
LIFE of Dr Franklin as written by Himself | 82 |
On the Death of his Brother Mr John Franklin | 140 |
A Petition of the Left Hand | 146 |
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