1752 Gentlemans Magazine Benjamin Franklin Electricity

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Title: 1752 Gentlemans Magazine Benjamin Franklin Electricity

Additional Information: The July 1752 issue of The Gentlemen's Magazine printed at London by Sylvanus Urban, 48 pages complete, including text cuts and a colored full page cut of the Red Winged Starling. In this issue is the representation of an experiment to show Benjamin Franklin's theory of electricity generated by Thunder. Much else including on the Aurora Borealis as well as a song sheet magazine not bound measures 5 by 8 inches. Fine condition..

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1752 Gentlemans Magazine Benjamin Franklin Electricity

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