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An illustration of a set of Franklin bells, printed in George Adams' Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy. Franklin bells (also known as lightning bells) are an early demonstration of electric charge designed to work with a Leyden jar or a lightning rod. Franklin bells are only a qualitative indicator of electric charge and were used ...
Andrew Gordon was born in Cofforach, Forfarshire.He was a son of an old Scottish aristocratic family and baptized with the name George. At the age of 12, he travelled to Regensburg, Bavaria, in order to study at the Benedictine Scottish Monastery.
Experiments and Observations on Electricity is a treatise by Benjamin Franklin based on letters that he wrote to Peter Collinson, who communicated Franklin's ideas to the Royal Society. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The letters were published as a book in England in 1751, and over the following years the book was reissued in four more editions containing ...
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Franklin's electrostatic machine on display at the Franklin Institute. Franklin's electrostatic machine is a high-voltage static electricity-generating device used by Benjamin Franklin in the mid-18th century for research into electrical phenomena.
Asked by Jerry Wexler, producer with Atlantic Records, to create songs for Otis Redding, Covay recorded a demo of "Chain of Fools", a song he had written in his youth while singing gospel with his brothers and sisters. The recording featured Covay singing and playing guitar, overdubbed with himself singing background.
In 1746–1748, Benjamin Franklin experimented with charging Leyden jars in series, [23] and developed a system involving 11 panes of glass with thin lead plates glued on each side, and then connected together. He used the term "electrical battery" to describe his electrostatic battery in a 1749 letter about his electrical research in 1748.
Demo recording: The Broadside Tapes 1 (1989, recorded 1962) About John Henry Faulk, a popular radio show host who fell victim to the blacklist when he was falsely accused of being a Communist. [16] "The Ballad of Medgar Evers" See "Too Many Martyrs" "The Ballad of Oxford (Jimmie Meredith)" (also titled "The Ballad of Oxford, Mississippi") Demo ...