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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
62-194
Record number:
62-194-2
JCB call number:
D780 F828h
Image title:
[Devices for testing the action of electricity]
Place image published:
[Dresden]
Image publisher:
[Waltherischen Hofbuchhandlung]
Image date:
1780
Image function:
fold-out plate 1; vol. 1, following p. 502
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
17.4 cm.
Image dimension width:
10.8 cm.
Page dimension height:
19.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
14 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Bottles, wire, wax blocks, book, a sheet of leaf brass or Dutch gold (fig. X), and rings arranged so as to test the movement of electricity from one place to another. Includes man standing on a piece of wax in a "sentry box" to draw lightning from the sky while being protected. Items are lettered and numbered for discussion in the text.
Source creator:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Source Title:
[Works. German] Des Herrn D. Benjamin Franklin's, Mitglieds der Königlichen Londner und Göttinger Gesellschaften, ... Aus dem Englischen und Französischen übersetzt. ... Erster Band, mit kupfern.
Source place of publication:
Dresden
Source publisher:
In der Waltherischen Hofbuchhandlung.
Source date:
1780
notes:
Text describes the experiments carried out by each of these apparatuses and the results obtained.Echeverria and Wilkie state that this translation is a combination of Barbeau-Dubourg's 1773 edition and Vaughn's 1779 edition of Franklin's works.Cf. 32060-1 for an earlier version of this plate, minus one of the diagrams, published in Leipzig, 1758 and 31708-1 for an earlier version published in London, 1751.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Electricity--Experiments

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