A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders : : Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America / / James Delbourgo.
Benjamin Franklin's invention of the lightning rod is the founding fable of American science, but Franklin was only one of many early Americans fascinated by electricity. As a dramatically new physical experience, electricity amazed those who dared to tame the lightning and set it coursing thro...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2006] ©2006 |
Year of Publication: | 2006 |
Language: | English |
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