Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2014-04-27 Public domain in the USA. 163 Franklin, Benjamin 1706 1790 Experiments and Observations on Electricity Made at Philadelphia in America Produced by Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Experiments and Observations on Electricity Made at Philadelphia in America" by Benjamin Franklin is a scientific publication written in the mid-18th century. This work comprises a series of letters detailing Franklin's experiments and observations regarding electricity, offering insights into the nature and behavior of electrical phenomena. It serves as a pivotal contribution to the understanding of electricity during the Enlightenment period. The opening of the book introduces the author’s initial forays into electrical experiments, revealing that his findings were initially intended for private amusement rather than publication. Franklin discusses specific experiments, such as the behavior of charged glass bottles and the effects of electricity on various objects, while outlining both conclusions and conjectures regarding the nature of electrical charges and discharges. He emphasizes the empirical foundation of his work, demonstrating a thoughtful approach to understanding the complexities of electricity and its potential applications, hinting at broader implications such as safety measures associated with lightning. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/45515/45515-h/images/cover.jpg en Electricity -- Early works to 1850 QC Text Browsing: Science - General 179555 179562 2024-09-19T06:37:05.370840 2023-09-19T17:43:11.616991 text/html text/html 177400 2014-04-27T11:43:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 958153 2014-04-27T11:44:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 984360 2024-09-19T06:37:10.116809 application/epub+zip 983180 2024-09-19T06:37:06.761863 application/epub+zip 294881 2024-09-19T06:37:05.934871 application/epub+zip 1097820 2024-09-19T06:37:12.747809 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 970248 2024-09-19T06:37:09.405832 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 332591 2022-09-20T18:24:01.588743 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 154599 154410 2024-09-19T06:37:05.025844 2023-09-19T17:43:11.301982 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 154347 2014-04-27T11:43:04 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 54402 2014-04-27T11:44:00 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 154378 2014-04-27T11:43:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 54383 2014-04-27T11:44:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19831 2024-09-19T06:37:12.881794 application/rdf+xml 11588 2024-09-19T06:37:06.179868 image/jpeg 2078 2024-09-19T06:37:06.053828 image/jpeg 1106156 2024-09-19T06:37:05.404832 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia