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Bolt of fate : Benjamin Franklin and his electric kite hoax / Tom Tucker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tucker, Tom, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Knowledge and learning--Physics.
- Franklin, Benjamin.
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Physics.
- Electricity--Experiments--History.
- Electricity.
- Lightning--Experiments--History.
- Lightning.
- History.
- Lightning--Experiments.
- Electricity--Experiments.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Science.
- United States.
- Physicists--United States--Biography.
- Physicists.
- Statesmen--United States--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 297 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : PublicAffairs, [2003]
- Summary:
- Was Benjamin Franklin's famous electric kite experiment a fraud? What many do not realize is that Franklin used this breakthrough in his day's intensely competitive field of electrical science to embarrass his French and English rivals.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Hand
- I Almanack-Writer 3
- II The Party Begins 12
- III The Equipment 22
- IV The Genius of Nations 32
- V Universal Cure 41
- VI Sunday 49
- Part 2 The Virtuoso
- VII Among Gentlemen 59
- VIII Night Benjamin 70
- IX Ivy-Girls and Holly-Boys 79
- X Deadly Box 87
- XI The Crusaders 99
- XII Marly 110
- XIII Lightning 124
- Part 3 Citizen of the World
- XIV The Kite 135
- XV Death at St. Petersburg 157
- XVI Making Amends 177
- XVII Franklin's Point 186
- XVIII The Tally 195
- Part 4 Household God
- XIX The Making 205
- XX Bolt of Fate 215
- XXI Checkmate 229.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-285) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1891620703
- OCLC:
- 51763922
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