Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Kinnersley, Ebenezer, 1711-1778
• Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3928554
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3928554

Publisher

Origin

Date

ca. 1751

Place

Philadelphia?

Summary

Synopsis of key ideas and experiments for two lectures on electricity. Benjamin Franklin wrote the original lectures ca. 1747 and Kinnersley gave the lectures on tour in the American colonies and the West Indies between 1749 and 1753. The references to lightning rods in the second lecture indicate that this version dates from 1751 or later. This manuscript is similar but not identical to advertisements for the lectures in the Pennsylvania Gazette.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger; date based on internal evidence.
   

Extent

Collation

Support

Binding

Script

Subjects topical

• Electricity--Early works to 1800
• Electricity--Experiments--Early works to 1800
• Lightning--Early works to 1800
• Lightning rods--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Lecture notes
• Manuscripts, American--18th century

Licenses

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