BOLT OF FATE : Benjamin Franklin and His Electric Kite Hoax

by Tucker, Tom

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Book description: NY: PublicAffairs, 2003. remainder mark else fine copy, dj in mylar cover, 297 pp w/index, notes, bibliography, B&W illustrations, "What many of us do not realize is that Franklin used this breakthrough in the intensely competitive field of electrical science to embarrass his French and English rivals. Electrical science was the hot science of his day..." Author revisits the scientific scene of the mid-eighteenth century, a jostling experimental arena that attracted philosophers, aristocrats, wheeler-dealers and social climbers. AL004. ISBN: 1891620703. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo. History American Physicists Benjamin Franklin Electricity Experiments Lightning Biography Statesmen United States Revolution 1775 1783 Science Technology 1800 Mechanics.

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