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2. Franklin bells - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. List of scientific demonstrations - Wikipedia

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   Franklin bells — demonstrate electric charges; Oxford Electric Bell — an experimental electric bell that was set up in 1840 and which has run nearly continuously ever since; Wimshurst machine — an electrostatic generator; Shooting a candle through a plank; Foucault pendulum — demonstrates the rotation of Earth

4. Glass harmonica - Wikipedia

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   A glass harp, an ancestor of the glass armonica, being played in Rome.The rims of wine glasses filled with water are rubbed by the player's fingers to create the notes.. The name "glass harmonica" (also "glass armonica", "glassharmonica"; harmonica de verre, harmonica de Franklin, armonica de verre, or just harmonica in French; Glasharmonika in German; harmonica in Dutch) refers today to any ...

5. Experiments and Observations on Electricity - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. Plane makes miraculous emergency landing on busy stretch of ...

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   A small plane made an emergency landing on a stretch of New York Thruway Friday, miraculously without injuring the pilot and two passengers or any drivers.

7. Andrew Gordon (Benedictine) - Wikipedia

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   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.