The Real Benjamin Franklin by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical, United States, History, Biography & Autobiography, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Patriot Bookshelf, Statesmen
ISBN: 9780880800006
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Publisher: Freemen Institute
Published: 1982-08-15T23:48:37+00:00

If the communication be through the air without any conductor, a bright light is seen between the bodies, and a sound is heard. In our small experiments we call this light and sound the electric spark and snap; but in the great operations of nature, the light is what we call lightning, and the sound (produced at the same time, though generally arriving later to our ears than the light does to our eyes) is, with its echoes, called thunder.—Smyth 5:55. (1767.)

ELECTRICITY, Franklin’s Theory Adopted in Europe.—I concluded [about 1753] to let my papers shift for themselves, believing it was better to spend what time I could spare from public business in making new experiments, than in disputing about those already made. I therefore never answered M. Nollet, and the event gave me no cause to repent my silence; for my friend M. le Roy, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, took up my cause and refuted him; my book was translated into the Italian, German, and Latin languages; and the doctrine it contained was by degrees universally adopted by the philosophers of Europe, in preference to that of the abbe; so that he lived to see himself the last of his sect, except Monsieur B— of Paris, his eleve and immediate disciple.—Autobiography. Smyth 1:419. (1788.)

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