Experiments and observations on electricity
Subtitle: made at Philadelphia in America
By: by Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. and F.R.S. ... ; to which are added, letters and papers on philosophical subjects ; The whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now collected into one volume and illustrated with copper plates.
Contributors: Hulett, James, d. 1771, engraver.; Cole, B. engraver.; Newbery, Francis, d. 1780, publisher.; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The fifth edition.
Publisher: Printed for F. Newbery ...
Published: 1774
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 514
Subjects: Electricity -- Early works to 1850; Physics -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1850.; Early works to 1800.
Notes: LC copy has inscription on front fly-leaf: "R. Barker 1775".
Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 631
Plates signed: J. Hullett sculp. or B. Cole sculp. One plate is unsigned.
Includes index.
LC copy has newspaper clipping mounted on front paste-down dated Feb. 21, 1896 regarding Benjamin Franklin's kite.