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LIFE of Dr. FRANKLIN 1
LETTERS AND PAPERS ON ELECTRICITY.
Introductory Letter. 169
Wonderful effect of points.--Positive and negative electricity.--Electrical kiss.--Counterfeit spider.--Simple and commodious electrical machine. 170
Observations on the Leyden bottle, with experiments proving the different electrical state of its different surfaces. 179
Further experiments confirming the preceding observations.--Leyden bottle analysed.--Electrical battery.--Magical Picture.--Electrical wheel or jack.--Electrical feast. 187
Observations and suppositions, towards forming a new hypothesis, for explaining the several phenomena of thunder-gusts. 203
Introductory letter to some additional papers. 216
Opinions and conjectures, concerning the properties and effects of the electrical matter, and the means of preserving buildings, ships, &c. from lightning, arising from experiments and observations made at Philadelphia, 1749.--Golden fish.--Extraction of effluvial virtues by electricity impracticable. 217
Additional experiments: proving that the Leyden bottle has no more electrical fire in it when charged, than before: nor less when discharged: that in discharging, the fire does not issue from the wire and the coating at the same time, as some have thought, but that the coating always receives what is discharged by the wire, or an equal quantity: the outer surface being always in a negative state of electricity, when the inner surface is in a positive state. 245
Accumulation of the electrical fire proved to be in the electrified glass.--Effect of lightning on the needle of compasses, explained.--Gunpowder fired by the electric flame. 247
Unlimited nature of the electric force. 250
The terms, electric per se, and non-electric, improper.--New relation between metals and water.--Effects of air in electrical experiments.--Experiment for discovering more of the qualities of the electric fluid. 252
Mistake, that only metals and water were conductors, rectified.--Supposition of a region of electric fire above our atmosphere.--Theorem concerning light.--Poke-weed a cure for cancers. 256
New experiments.--Paradoxes inferred from them.--Difference in the electricity of a globe of glass charged, and a globe of sulphur.--Difficulty of ascertaining which is positive and which negative. 261
Probable cause of the different attractions and repulsions of the two electrified globes mentioned in the two preceding letters. 264
Electrical kite. 267
Hypothesis, of the sea being the grand source of lightning, retracted.--Positive, and sometimes negative, 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.--Appearance of a thunder-cloud described. 269
Additional proofs of the positive and negative state of electricity in the clouds.--New method of ascertaining it. 284
Electrical experiments, with an attempt to account for their several phenomena, &c. 286
Experiments made in pursuance of those made by Mr. Canton, dated December 6, 1753; with explanations, by Mr. Benjamin Franklin. 294
Turkey killed by electricity.--Effect of a shock on the operator in making the experiment. 299
Differences in the qualities of glass.--Account of Domien, an electrician and traveller.--Conjectures respecting the pores of glass.--Origin of the author's idea of drawing down lightning.--No satisfactory hypothesis respecting the manner in which clouds become electrified.--Six men knocked down at once by an electrical shock.--Reflections on the spirit of invention. 301
Beccaria's work on electricity.--Sentiments of Franklin on pointed rods, not fully understood in Europe.--Effect of lightning on the church of Newbury, in New England.--Remarks on the subject. 309
Notice of another packet of letters. 313
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Boston, to Benjamin Franklin, Esq. concerning the crooked direction, and the source of lightning, and the swiftness of the electric fire. 314
Observations on the subjects of the preceding letter.--Reasons for supposing the sea to be the grand source of lightning.--Reasons for doubting this hypothesis.--Improvement in a globe for raising the electric fire. 320
Effect of lightning on captain Waddel's compass, and the Dutch church at New York. 324
Proposal of an experiment to measure the time taken up by an Electric spark, in moving through any given space. 327
Experiments on boiling water, and glass heated by boiling water.--Doctrine of repulsion in electrised bodies doubted.--Electricity of the atmosphere at different heights.--Electrical horse-race.--Electrical thermometer.--In what cases the electrical fire produces heat.--Wire lengthened by electricity.--Good effect of a rod on the house of Mr. West, of Philadelphia. 331
Answer to some of the foregoing subjects.--How long the Leyden bottle may be kept charged.--Heated glass rendered permeable by the 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. 343
Accounts from Carolina of the effects of lightning on two of the rods commonly affixed to houses there, for securing them against lightning. 361
Mr. William Maine's account of the effects of the lightning on his rod, dated at Indian Land, in South Carolina, Aug. 28, 1760. 362
On the electricity of the tourmalin. 369
New observation relating to electricity in the atmosphere. 373
Flash of lightning that struck St. Bride's steeple. 374
Best method of securing a powder magazine from lightning. 375
Of lightning, and the methods of securing buildings and persons from its mischievous effects. 377
St. Bride's steeple.--Utility of electrical conductors to Steeples.--Singular kind of glass tube. 382
Experiments, observations, and facts, tending to support the opinion of the utility of long pointed rods, for securing buildings from damage by strokes of lightning. 383
On the utility of electrical conductors. 400
On the effects of electricity in paralytic cases. 401
Electrical experiments on amber. 403
On the electricity of the fogs in Ireland. 405
Mode of ascertaining, whether the power, giving a shock to those who touch either the Surinam eel, or the torpedo, be electrical. 408
On the analogy between magnetism and electricity. 410
Concerning the mode of rendering meat tender by electricity. 413
Answer to some queries concerning the choice of glass for the Leyden experiment. 416
Concerning the Leyden bottle. 418
No. 1. Account of experiments made in electricity at Marly. 420
A more particular account of the same, &c. 422
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