Essays by Benjamin Franklin: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1786, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 107, Part 3)

ISBN-13: 9781606180730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 106 str.

Benjamin Franklin

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These essays have been collected and edited by the Amer. Philosophical Soc., of which Franklin was a founder, to honor the Society’s 275th Anniversary. Contents: Letter to Mr. Nairne, of London, from Dr. Franklin, Proposing a Slowly Sensible Hygrometer for Certain Purposes; A Letter from Dr. B. Franklin, to Dr. Ingenhausz, Physician to the Emperor, at Vienna, on the Causes and Cures of Smokey Chimneys; Description of a New Stove for Burning of Pitcoal, and Consuming All Its Smoke, by Dr. Franklin; A Letter from Dr. Franklin, to Mr. Alphonsus le Roy, Member of Several Academies, at Paris. Containing Sundry Maritime Observations. Illus.