Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- THE PREFACE
- Contents
- PART I THE HISTORY OF ELECTRICITY
- PERIOD I EXPERIMENTS and discoveries in electricity prior to those of Mr. Hawkesbee
- PERIOD II The experiments and discoveries of Mr. Hawkesbee
- PERIOD III The experiments and discoveries of Mr. Stephen Grey, which were made prior to those of Monsieur Du Faye, and which bring the history of electricity to the year 1733
- PERIOD IV The experiments and discoveries of Mr. Du Faye
- PERIOD V The continuation, and conclusion of Mr. Grey's experiments
- PERIOD VI The experiments of Dr. Desaguliers
- PERIOD VII Experiments of the Germans, and of Dr. Watson, before the discovery of the Leyden phial in the year 1746
- PERIOD VIII The history of electricity, from the discovery of the Leyden phial in the year 1746, till Dr. Franklin's discoveries
- PERIOD IX The experiments and discoveries of Dr. Franklin
- PERIOD X The history of electricity, from the time that Dr. Franklin made his experiments in america, till the year 1766
- PART II A SERIES OF PROPOSITIONS, COMPRISING ALL THE GENERAL PROPERTIES OP ELECTRICITY
- PART III THEORIES OF ELECTRICITY
- PART IV DESIDERATA IN THE SCIENCE OF ELECTRICITY, AND HINTS FOR THE FURTHER EXTENSION OF IT
- PART V OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF ELECTRICAL MACHINES, AND THE PRINCIPAL PARTS OF AN ELECTRICAL APPARATUS
- PART VI PRACTICAL MAXIMS FOR THE USE OF YOUNG ELECTRICIANS
- PART VII A DESCRIPTION OF THE MOST ENTERTAINING EXPERIMENTS PERFORMED BY ELECTRICITY
- PART VIII NEW EXPERIMENTS IN ELECTRICITY, MADE IN THE YEAR 1766
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
- A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS WRITTEN ON THE SUBJECT OF ELECTRICITY, EXCLUSIVE OF PAPERS IN BOOKS OF PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, AND OTHER. MISCELLANEOUS WORKS; DISTINGUISHING [BY ASTERISMS] THOSE WHICH THE AUTHOR HAD SEEN, AND MADE USE OF IN COMPILING THIS WORK
- AN INDEX OF THINGS
- AN INDEX OF NAMES
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
- A short account of a CHART OF BIOGRAPHY
PERIOD IV - The experiments and discoveries of Mr. Du Faye
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- THE PREFACE
- Contents
- PART I THE HISTORY OF ELECTRICITY
- PERIOD I EXPERIMENTS and discoveries in electricity prior to those of Mr. Hawkesbee
- PERIOD II The experiments and discoveries of Mr. Hawkesbee
- PERIOD III The experiments and discoveries of Mr. Stephen Grey, which were made prior to those of Monsieur Du Faye, and which bring the history of electricity to the year 1733
- PERIOD IV The experiments and discoveries of Mr. Du Faye
- PERIOD V The continuation, and conclusion of Mr. Grey's experiments
- PERIOD VI The experiments of Dr. Desaguliers
- PERIOD VII Experiments of the Germans, and of Dr. Watson, before the discovery of the Leyden phial in the year 1746
- PERIOD VIII The history of electricity, from the discovery of the Leyden phial in the year 1746, till Dr. Franklin's discoveries
- PERIOD IX The experiments and discoveries of Dr. Franklin
- PERIOD X The history of electricity, from the time that Dr. Franklin made his experiments in america, till the year 1766
- PART II A SERIES OF PROPOSITIONS, COMPRISING ALL THE GENERAL PROPERTIES OP ELECTRICITY
- PART III THEORIES OF ELECTRICITY
- PART IV DESIDERATA IN THE SCIENCE OF ELECTRICITY, AND HINTS FOR THE FURTHER EXTENSION OF IT
- PART V OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF ELECTRICAL MACHINES, AND THE PRINCIPAL PARTS OF AN ELECTRICAL APPARATUS
- PART VI PRACTICAL MAXIMS FOR THE USE OF YOUNG ELECTRICIANS
- PART VII A DESCRIPTION OF THE MOST ENTERTAINING EXPERIMENTS PERFORMED BY ELECTRICITY
- PART VIII NEW EXPERIMENTS IN ELECTRICITY, MADE IN THE YEAR 1766
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
- A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS WRITTEN ON THE SUBJECT OF ELECTRICITY, EXCLUSIVE OF PAPERS IN BOOKS OF PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, AND OTHER. MISCELLANEOUS WORKS; DISTINGUISHING [BY ASTERISMS] THOSE WHICH THE AUTHOR HAD SEEN, AND MADE USE OF IN COMPILING THIS WORK
- AN INDEX OF THINGS
- AN INDEX OF NAMES
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
- A short account of a CHART OF BIOGRAPHY
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- The History and Present State of ElectricityWith Original Experiments, pp. 45 - 53Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013First published in: 1767