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Electrical experiments / by Mr. Edward Nairne, of London, mathematical instrument-maker, made with a machine of his own workmanship, a description of which is prefixed.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1745 Bos (b.w.) Af 355.7 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nairne, Edward, 1726-1806 30804
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electricity--Early works to 1800.
- Electricity.
- Electric machines--Early works to 1800.
- Electric machines.
- Physical Description:
- 12 p., [2] folded leaves of plates ; ill. ; 26 cm. (4to)
- Place of Publication:
- [London : s.n., 1774?]
- Notes:
- "Read at the Royal Society, Dec. 9, 1773."
- Title from caption.
- Reprinted from vol. 64 of The philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.
- Engraved plates signed: Basire sc.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Bose, Recherches, q.v.; number 5 in table of contents; item 7 in volume. Modern half sheep over contemporary floral boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; purchased from Dufief, 1801-1803, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (34); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
- HSP copy wanting title page?
- OCLC:
- 173609466
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