Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Lecture notes.
Manuscripts, American.

Biography/History:

Scientific lecturer and teacher who investigated electricity with Benjamin Franklin; professor of English and oratory at the College of 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.
Collation: Paper, 8; [1-8]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Originally an 18th-century notebook with a paper wrapper; all leaves and covers now detached and sleeved separately.
Origin: Written, probably in Philadelphia, after 1751.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1036

Contributor:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Penn in the Age of Franklin (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

155928895

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