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The ingenious Dr. Franklin selected scientific letters of Benjamin Franklin,
Franklin's most entertaining speculative letters on a variety of subjects: the first balloon ascensions, electrocution, daylight saving, bifocal glasses, magic squares, his famous Kite and Stove, and so on.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia,
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1931.
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| Colección: | Pennsylvania paperbacks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; The Ingenious Dr. Franklin; Practical Schemes and Suggestions ; Daylight Saving; Treatment for Gout; Cold Air Bath; Electrical Treatment for Paralysis; Lead Poisoning; Rules of Health and Long Life; The Art of Procuring Pleasant Dreams; Learning to Swim; On Swimming; Choosing Eye-Glasses; Bifocals; Lightning Rods; Advantage of Pointed Conductors ; Pennsylvanian Fireplaces ; Slaughtering by Electricity ; Canal Transportation ; Indian Corn ; The Armonica ; Divers Experiments and Observations ; First Hydrogen Balloon.
- A Hot-Air BalloonFirst Aerial Voyage by Man; Second Aerial Voyage by Man; A Prophecy on Aerial Navigation; Magic Squares; Early Electrical Experiments; Electrical Experiments; The Kite; The Course and Effect of Lightning; Character of Clouds; Musical Sounds; Locating the Gulf Stream; Charting the Gulf Stream; Depth of Water and Speed of Boats; Distillation of Salt Water; Behavior of Oil on Water; Earliest Account of Marsh Gas; Smallpox and Cancer; Restoration of Life by Sun Rays; Scientific Deductions and Conjectures ; Cause of Colds; Definition of a Cold; Heat and Cold; Cold by Evaporation.
- On SpringsTides and Rivers; Direction of Rivers; Salt and Salt Water; Origin of Northeast Storms; Effect of Oil on Water; Spouts and Whirlwinds; Sun Spots; Conductors and Non-Conductors; Queries on Electricity; Magnetism and the Theory of the Earth; Nature of Lightning; Sound; Prehistoric Animals of the Ohio; Toads Found in Stone; Checklist of Letters and Papers; List of Correspondents; List of a Few Additional Letters; Back Cover.