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Draw the lightning down : Benjamin Franklin and electrical technology in the age of Enlightenment
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Draw the lightning down : Benjamin Franklin and electrical technology in the age of Enlightenment

by Michael Brian Schiffer

This book explores the eighteenth-century origins of electrical science and Benjamin Franklin's pivotal role in its development. It examines how early laboratory apparatus evolved into practical inventions that transformed medicine, chemistry and society.

Accession 29432 ISBN 0520238028 Publisher University of California Press
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