92 results filtered with: Electricity - Early works to 1850
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Breslaw's last legacy: or, the conjuror unmasked. Containing All That IS Curious, Pleasing, Entertaining, And Comical, Selected from the most celebrated Masters of Slight Of Hand And Deception, Mathematical Inventions, &c. Wherein IS Displayed The Mode and Manner of deceiving the Eye, As practised by those celebrated Masters of Mirthful Deceptions, Breslaw, Sieur Comus, Jonas, Pinetti, &c. Also, Interpretations Of Dreams, Signification Of Moles, Palmistry, Remarkable Stories, &c. The Whole Forming A Book Of Real Knowledge In The Art Of Conjuration. With an accurate Description of making The Air Balloon. The tenth edition, with great additions and improvements.
Date: 1792- Books
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Miscellaneous experiments and remarks on electricity, the air-pump, and the barometer : with the description of an electrometer of a new construction ... / by A. Brook, of Norwich.
Brook, Abraham.Date: 1797- Books
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A familiar introduction to the study of electricity. By Joseph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Principes d'électricité, contenant plusieurs théorêmes appuyés par des expériences nouvelles, avec une analyse des avantages supérieurs des conducteurs élevés et pointus. ... Par Milord Mahon, ... Ouvrage traduit de l'anglois, par Mr. l'abbé N..... ...
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816.Date: 1781- Books
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An essay on electricity; in which the theory and practice of that useful science, are illustrated by a variety of experiments, arranged in a methodical manner. To which is added, an essay on magnetism. By George Adams, Mathematical Instrument-Maker to His Majesty.
Adams, George, 1750-1795.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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On the elementary principles of nature; and the simple laws by which they are governed. Being an attempt to demonstrate their existence, and to explain their mode of action; particularly in those states, in which, they Produce the Attractions of Cohesion, Gravitation, Magnetism and Electricity; and also Fire, Light, and Water. By E. Peart, M.D.
Peart, E (Edward), 1756?-1824.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A treatise on electricity. By B. W.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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An essay on electricity, explaining the theory and practice of that useful science; and the mode of applying it to medical purposes. With an essay on magnetism. The second edition. Corrected and considerably enlarged by George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty.
Adams, George, 1750-1795.Date: 1785- Books
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The desideratum: or, electricity made plain and useful. By a lover of mankind, and of common sense.
Wesley, John, 1703-1791.Date: 1790- Books
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An account of experiments made at the Pantheon, on the nature and use of conductors: to which are added, some new experiments with the Leyden phial. Read at the meetings of the Royal Society.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Philosophical essays: in several letters to the Royal Society, containing a discovery of the cause of thunder, with a subsequent Explanation and Demonstration of the same. The Cause of the Ascent, Station, and Descent of Vapours and Exhalations: The Cause of Winds; and, an Explanation of the general Phaenomena of the Weather, Barometer, &c. The true Rudiments and Theory of Electricity and Magnetism. An Attempt to shew that the Electrical Powers are the Cause of the Reflection and Refraction of Light. Some Mention of the wonderful Medicinal Effects of Electricity on a great Number of Patients, whom the Author has cured of Palsies, and many other Disorders. With other useful Matters, which may be deduced from these Essays. By Henry Eeles, Esq;
Eeles, Henry.Date: 1771- Books
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The history and present state of electricity, with original experiments, by Joseph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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New experiments and observations concerning electricity. In four papers ; read at several meetings of the Royal Society, in the year 1759. By Robert Symmer, Esq; F. R. S. With a letter from John Mitchell, M. D. F. R. S. to Thomas Birch, D. D. Secretary to the Royal Society, relating to some of those Experiments.
Symmer, Robert, -1763.Date: M.DCC.LX. [1760]- Books
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A sequel to the Experiments and observations tending to illustrate the nature and properties of electricity: wherein it is presumed, by a series of experiments expresly for that purpose, that the source of the electrical power, and its manner of acting are demonstrated. Addressed to the Royal Society. By William Watson, F.R.S.
Watson, William, Sir, 1715-1787.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Books
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A supplement to the Philosophia Britannica. Appendix I. Containing New Experiments in electricity, and The Method of making artificial magnets. Illustrated with Copper-Plates. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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A short view of electricity, by B. Wilson, F.R.S. And Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Petersburgh, &c. &c.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
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Calculations to determine at what point in the side of a hill its attraction will be the greatest, &c. By Charles Hutton, LL.D. And F.R.S. Read at the Royal Society, Nov. 11, 1779.
Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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A familiar introduction to the theory and practice of perspective. By Joseph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
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A familiar introduction to the study of electricity. By Joseph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Principles of electricity, containing divers new theorems and experiments, together with an analysis of the superior advantages of high and pointed conductors. This treatise comprehends an explanation of an electrical returning stroke, by which, fatal effects may be produced, even at a vast distance from the place where the lightning falls. By Charles Viscount Mahon, F.R.S.
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816.Date: M.DCC.LXX.IX. [1779]- Books
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Farther proofs that glass is permeable by the electric effluvia, and that the electric particles are possessed of a polar virtue; with Remarks on the Monthly Reviewers Animadversions on a late Work, intituled, By the Reverend John Lyon, of Dover, Kent.
Lyon, John, 1734-1817.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]- Books
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A letter from Paris, concerning some new electrical experiments made there.
Needham, John Turberville, 1713-1781.Date: M.DCC.XLVI. [1746]- Books
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New experiments and observations on electricity. Made at Philadelphia in America. By Benjamin Franklin, Esq; and communicated in several letters to Peter Collinson, Esq; of London, F.R.S. Part I.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.Date: [1760]- Books
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An essay towards an explication of the phænomena of electricity, deduced from the æther of Sir Isaac Newton, contained in three papers which were read before the Royal-Society. By Benjamin Wilson.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: 1747- Books
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A complete treatise on electricity, in theory and practice; with original experiments. By Tiberius Cavallo, F.R.S.
Cavallo, Tiberius, 1749-1809.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]