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BiblioTech - Bexar County Digital Library

BiblioTech - Bexar County Digital Library

Home - Digitised images from the Bodleian Libraries Special Collections 1750 to 1800 - Books That Shaped America | Exhibitions Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity (1751) In 1751, Peter Collinson, president of the Royal Society, arranged for the publication of a series of letters from Benjamin Franklin, written between 1747 and 1750, describing his experiments with electricity. Franklin demonstrated his new theory of the general electrical “action” of positive and negative charges, suggested the electrical nature of lightning, and proposed a grounded rod as a protection against lightning. Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790). Bookmark this item: Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard Improved (1732) and The Way to Wealth (1785) As a writer, Benjamin Franklin was best known for the wit and wisdom he shared with the readers of his popular almanac, Poor Richard, under the pseudonym “Richard Saunders.” Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790). Bookmark this item:

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