Experiments and observations on electricity made at Philadelphia in America / by Benjamin Franklin ; to which are added, letters and papers on philosophical subjects ; the whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one volume.

Author/creator Franklin, Benjamin
Format Electronic
Edition[4th ed.]
Publication InfoLondon : Printed for D. Henry, 1769.
Description496 [i.e. 508] p., [7] leaves of plates (2 fold.) : ill., music ; 26 cm.
Supplemental ContentGale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
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Other author/creatorCollinson, Peter, 1694-1768.
Other author/creatorKinnersley, Ebenezer, 1711-1778.
Other author/creatorMazéas, Guillaume, 1712-1776.
Other author/creatorWatson, William, Sir, 1715-1787.
Other author/creatorColden, David, 1733-1784.
Other author/creatorCanton, John, 1718-1772.
Other author/creatorMaine, William.
Other author/creatorWinthrop, John, 1714-1779.
Other author/creatorSyng, Philip, 1703-1789.
Other author/creatorHopkinson, Thomas, 1709-1751.
Other author/creatorHulett, James, d. 1771.
Other author/creatorCole, B. (Benjamin)
Running title New experiments and observations on electricity
Running title Mr. B. Franklin's Letters on electricity
SeriesSabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED
Partial contents Electrical experiments with an attempt to account for their several phaenomena. Together with some observations on thunder-clouds / John Canton -- Electrical and other philosophical papers and letters.
Local noteLibrary's copy imperfect: bleed-through of text.
General noteSecond and third editions published under title: New experiments and observations on electricity.
General note"Advertisement concerning this fourth edition": p. [vi].
General notePaging irregular: nos. 111-112, 416-417 and 465-472 repeated.
General noteContents principally communicated to Peter Collinson, F.R.S., London, in a series of letters.
General noteIncludes remarks by E. Kinnersley, G. Mazeas, W. Watson, D. Colden (on Abbé Nollet's Letters on electricity), J. Canton, W. Maine, and J. Winthrop, among others identified only by initials.
General noteIncludes index.
General noteReproduction of original from Huntington Library.
General noteSabin no. 25506.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
References RLIN, CTRG04-B50
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Other titleObservations concerning the increase of mankind.
Other titleAccount of the new invented Pennsylvanian fire-places.
Other titleNew experiments and observations on electricity.

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