 | Walter Isaacson - 2003 - 607 Seiten
...fire kindled by the electrified bottle; while the healths of all the famous electricians in England, France and Germany are to be drank in electrified...the discharge of guns from the electrical battery." The frivolity went well. Though turkeys proved harder to kill than chickens, Franklin and friends finally... | |
 | Tom Tucker - 2009 - 304 Seiten
...be killed for our dinners by the electrical shock, and roasted by the electrical jack, before a lire kindled by the electrified bottle, when the healths of all the famous electricians in England, France and Germany, are to be drank in electrified bumpers, under the discharge of guns from the electrical... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2004 - 628 Seiten
...described it in a letter to Collinson: "A turkey is to be killed for our dinners by the electrical shock; and roasted by the electrical jack, before a fire kindled by the electrified bottle; while the healths of all the famous electricians in England, France and Germany are to be drank in... | |
 | Michael Brian Schiffer - 2003 - 408 Seiten
...by his motor. The fire would be kindled by the discharge of a Leyden jar. Attendees would drink to the "healths of all the famous electricians in England, Holland, France, and Germany ... in electrified bumpers, under the discharge of guns from the electrical battery." 8 The electrified... | |
 | Michael Brian Schiffer, Kacy L. Hollenback, Carrie L. Bell - 2003 - 398 Seiten
...would drink to the "healths of all the famous electricians in England, Holland, France, and Germany ... in electrified bumpers, under the discharge of guns from the electrical battery. " 8 The electrified bumper was a tumbler of thin glass containing wine and electrified like a Leyden... | |
 | Andrew F. Smith - 2006 - 266 Seiten
...experiments. In 1749 Franklin proposed that a turkey "be killed for dinner by the electrical shock, and roasted by the electrical jack, before a fire kindled by the electrified bottle. ' 2 That proposed technique did not turn the culinary "world on its head. It is neither for his turkey... | |
 | Bern Dibner - 1954 - 54 Seiten
...pleasure on the banks of the Skuylkil a turkey is to be killed ... for dinner by the electrical shock, and roasted by the electrical jack before a fire kindled...the discharge of guns from the electrical battery." 18ALESSANDRO VOLTA and the electric generating cell Yalta's bi-metallic pile. Front Trans. Royal Soc.,... | |
 | 780 Seiten
...performed to the amazement of many. A turkey is to be killed for our dinner by the electrical shock and roasted by the electrical jack before a fire kindled...the discharge of guns from the electrical battery." It was in 1749 that Franklin came to the conclusion that lightning and the electrical fire are identical.... | |
 | 1886 - 554 Seiten
...performed, to the amazement of many. A turkey is to be killed for our dinner by- the electrical shock, and roasted by the electrical jack, before a fire...the discharge of guns from the electrical battery." We are happy to say that Franklin's dream of something "of use to mankind " from electrical research... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1887 - 674 Seiten
...characteristic humour a proposal to hold an electrical party of pleasure on the banks of the Skuylkil, when the healths of all the famous electricians in...the discharge of guns from the electrical battery. This is followed by a very interesting account of the early development of the experimental science,... | |
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A turkey is to be killed for our dinner by the electrical shock and roasted by the electrical jack before a fire kindled by the electrified bottle; when the healths of all the famous electricians in England, Holland, France and Germany are to be drank... 
