Experiments and Observations on Electricity explained

Experiments and Observations on Electricity is a treatise by Benjamin Franklin based on letters that he wrote to Peter Collinson, who communicated Franklin's ideas to the Royal Society.^{[1] [2]} The letters were published as a book in England in 1751, and over the following years the book was reissued in four more editions containing additional material, the last in 1774.^[3] Science historian I. Bernard Cohen crafted an edition with historical commentary that was published in 1941.^{[4] [5]}

Further reading

• Web site: Experiments and Observations, [April 1751] ]. Founders Online . National Archives . Original source: Book: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 4, July 1, 1750, through June 30, 1753 . Leonard W. . Labaree . Yale University Press . 1961 . 125–130.
• An Account of Mr. Benjamin Franklin's Treatise, Lately Published, Intituled, Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America; By Wm. Watson, F. R. S. . William . Watson . William Watson (scientist) . Philosophical Transactions . 1751 . 47 . 202–211 . 105044.

External links

• Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America (1751), scanned from a copy in Franklin's personal library with his own handwritten notes, at the Internet Archive

Notes and References

1. Guerlac . Henry . 1942 . Review of Benjamin Franklin's Experiments: A New Edition of Franklin's Experiments and Observations on Electricity . The New England Quarterly . 15 . 1 . 158–161 . 10.2307/360244 . 360244 . 0028-4866.
2. Krider . E. Philip . January 2006 . Benjamin Franklin and lightning rods . . en . 59 . 1 . 42–48 . 10.1063/1.2180176 . 2006PhT....59a..42K . 110623159 . 0031-9228. free .
3. Jorgenson . Chester E. . 1942 . Review of Benjamin Franklin's Experiments. A New Edition of Franklin's "Experiments and Observations on electricity." . American Literature . 14 . 2 . 184–187 . 10.2307/2920680 . 2920680 . 0002-9831.
4. C. T. R. . Wilson . Benjamin Franklin's experiments . . 151 . 430–431 . 1943 . 3833 . 10.1038/151430a0 . 1943Natur.151..430W . 38717309 . Charles Thomson Rees Wilson.
5. 10.1086/597575 . Dauben . J. W. . Joseph Dauben . Gleason . M. L. . Smith . G. E. . 2009 . Seven Decades of History of Science: I. Bernard Cohen (1914–2003), Second Editor of Isis . . 100 . 1 . 4–35. 19554868 . 31401544 .