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Title: Newport, March 16, 1752. Notice is hereby given to the curious, that at the Court-House, in the Council-Chamber, is now to be exhibited, and continued from day to day, for a week or two; a course of experiments, on the newly-discovered electrical fire: containing; not only the most curious of those that have been published in Europe, but a considerable number of new ones lately made in Philadelphia; to be accompanied with methodical lectures on the nature and properties of that wonderful element
Identifier(s): text:1772; APSimg6453; Goodman Number: 140; 973 C683 No. 275
Description: Kinnersley, collaborator with Benjamin Franklin in his electrical studies, lectured on electricity and lightning in Philadelphia, Newport, New York, and elsewhere before accepting an appointment as professor of English at the College of Philadelphia in 1753.; Photocopy. Location of original source unknown.
Creator: Kinnersley, Ebenezer, 1711-1778
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Electricity; Electricity--Experiments; Fire; Public speaking
Date: 1752

Title: XXXII. On static electrical inductive action. By Michael Faraday, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S. To R. Phillips, Esq., F.R.S. ...Royal Institution, 4th Feb. 1843
Identifier(s): text:485; APSimg6631; Goodman Number: 138
Description: Appear from the number (XXXII) to be part of a series of printed letters from this discoverer of electromagnetic induction and primary architect of classical Field Theory. Illustrated, with two diagrams. ; Item call number: 500 Pam. v. 6, no. 7.
Creator: Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867
Source: Science Pamphlet Collection (500 Pam. v. 6);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Electricity; Electricity; Electricity--Experiments
Date: 1843

Title: From the Winchester Virginian. Interesting galvanic experiments. Winchester, June 27, 1833
Identifier(s): text:605; APSimg6607; Goodman Number: 137
Description: Sent to Peter Du Ponceau, president of the American Philosophical Society by John R. W. Dunbar, and read before the society on July 19, 1833. Includes manuscript note in the margin signed by Dunbar who performed a series of electrical experiments on the body of a recently executed criminal. By applying shocks from a battery supplied by Dr. [Julius Timoleon] Ducatel of the University of Maryland, and belonging to Mr. Edmondson, Dunbar was able evoke severe muscular contractions in the corpse.
Creator: Dunbar, John R. W. (John Richard Woodcock), 1805-1871
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives, Manuscript Communications (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/a/apsmc.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Electricity; Electricity--Experiments; Electric shocks; Dead persons
Date: 1833