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Author:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, author.
Title:
Essays by Benjamin Franklin : transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1786 / collected and edited by the American Philosophical Society.
Publisher:
American Philosophical Society Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
99 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 26 cm
Subject:
Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790.
Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790.
Statesmen--United States--Biography.
Inventors--United States--Biography.
Inventions--United States--History--18th century.
Inventions.
Inventors.
Statesmen.
United States.
1700-1799
Biography.
History.
Other Authors:
American Philosophical Society, editor.
Other Titles:
Works. Selections. 2018
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references
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. Benjamin Franklin, to Mr. Alphonsus le Roy, member of several academies, at Paris, containing sundry maritime observations.
Series:
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 0065-9746 ; volume 107, part 3
ISBN:
9781606180730
1606180738
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1057731483
LCCN:
2018049614
Locations:
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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