Benjamin Franklin

“ West, of Philadelphia. 331 Answer to some of the foregoing subjects.—How long the Leyden bottle may be kept charged.—Heated glass rendered permeable by the electric fluid.—Electrical attraction and repulsion.—Reply to other subjects in the preceding paper.—Numerous ways of kindling fire.—Explosion of water.—Knobs and points. 343 Accounts from Carolina (mentioned in the foregoing letter) of the effects of lightning on two of the rods commonly affixed to houses there, for securing them against lightning. ”

“ PAPERS ON SUBJECTS OF GENERAL POLITICS. Observations concerning the increase of mankind, peopling of countries, &c 383 Remarks on some of the foregoing observations, showing particularly the effect which manners have on population 392 Plan by Messieurs Franklin and Dalrymple, for benefiting distant unprovided countries 403 [vi] Concerning the provision made in China against famine 407 Positions to be examined, concerning national wealth 408 Political fragments, supposed either to be written by Dr. ”

“ Bride's steeple. 374 Best method of securing a powder magazine from lightning. 375 Of lightning, and the methods (now used in America) of securing buildings and persons from its mischievous effects. 377 St. Bride's steeple.—Utility of electrical conductors to Steeples.—Singular kind of glass tube. 382 Experiments, observations, and facts, tending to support the opinion [xiv] of the utility of long pointed rods, for securing buildings from damage by strokes of lightning. 383 On the utility of electrical conductors. 400 On the effects of electricity in paralytic cases. ”

“ Founded on authentic documents 59 The interest of Great Britain considered, with regard to her colonies, and the acquisitions of Canada and Guadaloupe 89 Remarks and facts relative to the American paper-money 144 To the freemen of Pensylvania, on the subject of a particular militia-bill, rejected by the proprietor's deputy or governor 157 Preface by a member of the Pensylvanian assembly (Dr. Franklin) to the speech of Joseph Galloway, Esq. one of the members for Philadelphia county ”

“ Benjamin Franklin. 294 Turkey killed by electricity.—Effect of a shock on the operator in making the experiment. 299 Differences in the qualities of glass.—Account of Domien, an electrician and traveller.—Conjectures respecting the pores of glass.—Origin of the author's idea of drawing down lightning.—No satisfactory hypothesis respecting the manner in which clouds become electrified.—Six men knocked down at once by an electrical shock.—Reflections on the spirit of invention. ”

“ Whetley 543* APPENDIX, NO. II.—CONTAINING LETTERS BY SEVERAL EMINENT PERSONS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF DR. FRANKLIN'S MANNERS AND CHARACTER. Letter from the late Dr. Price to a gentleman in America 543 Letter from Mr. Thomas Jefferson to the late Dr. William Smith, of Philadelphia 545 Letter from the late Dr. Joseph Priestly 547
MEMOIRS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ”