Experiments and observations on electricity
Subtitle: made at Philadelphia in America
By: 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, and illustrated with copper plates
Contributors: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768; Kinnersley, Ebenezer, 1711-1778; Mazéas, Guillaume, 1712-1776; Watson, William, Sir, 1715-1787; Colden, David, 1733-1784; Canton, John, 1718-1772; Maine, William; Winthrop, John, 1714-1779; Syng, Philip, 1703-1789; Hopkinson, Thomas, 1709-1751; Hulett, James, -1771; Cole, B. (Benjamin)
Publisher: Printed for David Henry; and sold by Francis Newbery ...
Published: 1769
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 508
Subjects: Electricity; Early works to 1850; Lightning; Meteorology; Early works to 1800; Tornadoes; Population; Fireplaces; Magic squares
Other titles: New experiments and observations on electricity.; Observations concerning the increase of mankind, peopling of countries, &c.; An account of the new invented Pennsylvanian fire-places.
Notes: Second and third editions published under title: New experiments and observations on electricity.

"Advertisement concerning this fourth edition": p. [vi].

Alternate version of plate 1, facing p. [1], on heavy paper, not folded, not signed by T. Jefferys.

Paging irregular: nos. 111-112, 416-417 and 465-472 repeated.

Contents principally communicated to Peter Collinson, F.R.S., London, in a series of letters.

Includes Franklin's Observations concerning the increase of mankind, peopling of countries, &c.; and his Account of the new-invented Pensylvanian fire-places.

Includes 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.

Ford, p. 41, notes that the experiments were the work of Franklin, Philip Syng, Thomas Hopkinson, and Ebenezer Kinnersley.

Plates engraved by J. Hulett and B. Cole.

Rare Book copy 3 (Smith 537 1769 F85): Preface, advertisement, and frontispiece wanting.

Includes index.

Ford, P.L.  Franklin, 307

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