The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Ed., and Many Letters Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Volumen5Hillard, Gray,, 1837 |
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... Electric Fluid . JAMES BOWDOIN TO B. FRANKLIN . 21 Dec. 1751 . On the Causes of the crooked Direction of Light- ning . Objections to the Hypothesis that the Sea is the Source of Lightning . —On the Swiftness of the Electrical Fire ...
... Electric Fluid . JAMES BOWDOIN TO B. FRANKLIN . 21 Dec. 1751 . On the Causes of the crooked Direction of Light- ning . Objections to the Hypothesis that the Sea is the Source of Lightning . —On the Swiftness of the Electrical Fire ...
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... Electricity of the Clouds discovered.- New Experiments and Conjectures in Support of this Discovery . Observations recommended for ascertaining the Direction of the Electric Fluid . — Size of Rods for Conductors to Buildings . pearance ...
... Electricity of the Clouds discovered.- New Experiments and Conjectures in Support of this Discovery . Observations recommended for ascertaining the Direction of the Electric Fluid . — Size of Rods for Conductors to Buildings . pearance ...
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... Electric Fluid . Electrical Attraction and Repulsion.- Reply to other Subjects in the preceding Paper . Numerous Ways of kindling Fire . - Explosion of Water . Knobs and Points - Accounts from Carolina ( mentioned in the foregoing ...
... Electric Fluid . Electrical Attraction and Repulsion.- Reply to other Subjects in the preceding Paper . Numerous Ways of kindling Fire . - Explosion of Water . Knobs and Points - Accounts from Carolina ( mentioned in the foregoing ...
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... electric matter with them ; and from the rarefying the air , between the glowing coal or red - hot iron and the electrized shot , through which rarefied air the electric fluid could more readily pass . These experiments with the wheels ...
... electric matter with them ; and from the rarefying the air , between the glowing coal or red - hot iron and the electrized shot , through which rarefied air the electric fluid could more readily pass . These experiments with the wheels ...
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... electric fluid from the one , and delivering it to the other , till both phials are nearly discharged . 8. When we ... electrical fire in the phial after what is called its charging , than before , nor less after its discharging ...
... electric fluid from the one , and delivering it to the other , till both phials are nearly discharged . 8. When we ... electrical fire in the phial after what is called its charging , than before , nor less after its discharging ...
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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 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 phial 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 wire
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Página 46 - To conclude, my lords, if the ministers thus persevere in misadvising and misleading the king, I will not say, that they can alienate the affections of his subjects from his crown ; but I will affirm, that they will make the crown not worth his wearing. I will not say that the king is betrayed ; but I will pronounce, that the kingdom is undone.
Página 161 - Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men ? we will not come up.
Página 65 - They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Página 154 - We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government and examined the different forms of those republics which, having been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer exist.
Página 211 - 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 in electrified bumpers under the discharge of guns from the electrical battery.
Página 154 - I have lived, sir, a long time ; and the longer I live. the more convincing proofs I see of this truth : That GOD goverra in the affairs of men ! And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Página 155 - I therefore beg leave to move, That henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business; and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service.
Página 236 - On the top of some high tower or steeple, place a kind of sentry-box (as in Plate I., Fig. 9), big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the middle of the stand let an iron rod rise and pass bending out of the door, and then upright twenty or thirty feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a man standing on it when...
Página 124 - GENTLEMEN, A SHIP having been fitted out from England, before the commencement of this war, to make discoveries of new countries in unknown seas, under the conduct of that most celebrated navigator...
Página 156 - It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear, that our...