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Similar to Ben Franklin's kite experiment...
Similar to Ben Franklin's kite experiment...
Item # 676547
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GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, London, August, 1756 The first two pages are devoted to the "Caribee Islands" [Caribbean] primarily limited to text on Barbadoes. A related map is lacking.Inside has a very detailed, 2 1/2 page article on: "A Paper Kite Electrified by a Storm" by M. de Romas, being an experiment very much like Ben Franklin's a bit earlier.
Indeed, a footnote includes: "M. de Romas has been satisfied...that Mr. Franklin had made trial of a kite some time before in Pennsylvania, the result where is therein described, see vol. xxii, pg. 560, which indeed was far less extraordinary than that at Nerac..." with more about the difference between this experiment and Franklin's.
Another full page is taken up with: "...the following table of names of numbers of several Indian nations...". Near the back are a few items concerning the French & Indian War.
Complete in 48 pages, full title/contents page, 5 by 8 1/4 inches, very nice condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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